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A rare, documented account of the life of a Crow medicine woman, drawn from interviews conducted by legendary writer and ethnographer Frank Bird Linderman and told in her own words. In the spring of 1931, Pretty-shield, a grandmother and medicine healer in the Crow tribe, met... Read Full Overview

Pretty-shield, the legendary medicine woman of the Crows, remembered what life was like on the Plains when the buffalo were still plentiful. A powerful healer who was forceful, astute, and compassionate, Pretty-shield experienced many changes as her formerly mobile people were... Read Full Overview

""Originally published in 1932 as "Red Mother," this book was perhaps the first record of the women s side of Indian life, and it has become a classic work in its field.Pretty-shield told her story to Frank Linderman through an interpreter and using the sign language. A medicine... Read Full Overview

""Originally published in 1932 as "Red Mother," this book was perhaps the first record of the women s side of Indian life, and it has become a classic work in its field.Pretty-shield told her story to Frank Linderman through an interpreter and using the sign language. A medicine... Read Full Overview