Lakota Woman Tohono O'odham practiced the old ways

practiced the old ways

as sacred as it is historical

especially its oral tradition

and ritualized practices of decorum that are comparable in sophistication to those of Confucianism

prose poems

Lakota Woman Tohono O'odham practiced the old waysMary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopeless of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native American communities in the sixties and seventies. Mary eventually married Leonard Crow Dog, the American