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A unique autobiography unparalleled in American Indian literature, and a deeply moving account of a woman's triumphant struggle to survive in a hostile world.
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Lakota Woman.......2007-10-02
I learnt so much from this book, and felt myself getting angry because of her experiences. good on her for telling her story. L'Ohanna
Non Fiction.......2007-09-03
An autobiographical account of Mary Crow Dog's life, this includes experiencing the events that happened at Wounded Knee, and her relationship with her husband, as well as the politics and experiences associated with the AIM political movement.
A look at the disturbing state and problems these people were facing at the time, very interesting.
Lakota Woman.......2007-08-23
An interesting look at the American Indian's struggles in the latter half of the 20th century. The perspective of Mary Crow Dog is helpful for those who have no similar life experiences to compare to it. Very good insight.
Excellent.......2006-11-10
The book came in perfect time and is in excellent condition. I have added it to my collection of Native American History
Powerful and compelling account of a woman on the reservation.......2006-07-28
This is a very powerful book about Mary Crow Dog's experiences growing up as a Lakota (Sioux) woman on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. It should be required reading for anyone who feigns ignorance of the ways that Native Americans continue to be treated in the US today. Local whites, the state of South Dakota, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the rest of the power establishment have their inhumanity exposed.
Crow Dog writes in a very sparse style, and writes of brutal incidents in a matter-of-fact way. While this style makes the book compelling, it is also responsible for a major weakness of the book. Throughout the book, Crow Dog is never introspective. Things happen (she uses drugs, starts shoplifting, chooses men poorly) or happen to her (she is raped, among other things), but she doesn't think about why these things happen. She conveys neither a sense of her own agency in these events, or a sense of her own lack of agency.
Oddly for an autobiography, Mary Crow Dog is the object, not the subject, of this story. Even at Wounded Knee, she doesn't really understand why she is there, other than the fact that she has followed the male authority figures of the movement into the siege. She made her choice and put her body on the line but can't really explain why. How life on the reservation produces people like this is certainly worth reflection.
This siege at Wounded Knee provides the centerpiece of the book, and its natural climax. Crow Dog has a very different view of these events than the accounts provided by the leadership, who knew their history and knew what they were trying to do. Crow Dog also talks about the aftermath of the siege, and the period when her husband was in jail. At this time, she also followed him into the practice of Native American religion, and - - more implicitly than explicitly - - explains why this religion is attractive to many.
Finally, this book also provides a valuable insiders' perspective of the dysfunctional communities on Pine Ridge. It's interesting that the politically correct crowd condemns Ian Frazier's "On the Rez" while praising "Lakota Woman"- - both paint similar pictures of the same reservation. It's true than a Lakota insider brings perspectives not available to outsiders, but a white outsider also bring perspectives not available to insiders. Read them both and make up your own mind.
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- Warm-hearted, interesting story
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The Real Rosebud: The Triumph of a Lakota Woman
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Her great-grandfather was a famed Lakota warrior, her father a buffalo hunter, and Rosebud Yellow Robe hosted a CBS radio show in New York City. From buffalo hunting to the hub of twentieth-century urban life, this book chronicles the momentous changes in the life of a prominent Plains Indian family over three generations. At the center of the story is Rosebud (1907–92), whose personal recollections, family memoirs, letters, and stories form the basis of this book.
Rosebud’s father, Chauncey Yellow Robe, was the son of a Lakota chief and had a traditional childhood until he was sent to the Carlisle Indian School, where he became an advocate for Indian education and citizenship. He was instrumental in planning the 1927 ceremony that brought his daughter into national prominence—an induction of Calvin Coolidge into the Lakota tribe, capped by Rosebud placing a feathered war bonnet on the president’s head. Marjorie Weinberg follows the young woman from Rapid City, South Dakota, to New York City, where she became a noted lecturer and teller of Indian tales (and where her broadcasting career brought her name to the attention of Orson Welles, who may indeed have used her name for his famous sled in Citizen Kane). Reflecting a lifelong interest and a friendship that provided Weinberg access to family archives and a rich reservoir of family oral tradition, The Real Rosebud offers an intimate picture of a century and a half of a remarkable Lakota family.
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Warm-hearted, interesting story.......2004-02-29
I found the book well written, intellectually engaging and emotionally touching. It's a great story about a prominent Native American family.
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Mark St. Pierre has put together a book deserving of fame!!!.......1999-09-12
Being a fanatic of Native American writings and lore I find again Mark St. Pierre, top of the list. I understand he has lived in the Lokata nation for the last thirty years and writes from the heart. Follow this writer because he is destined for fame. No writer has captured this beautiful culture with more passion than he has. I look foward to his next work.
I found this book an inspiration and true-to-life........1999-02-26
If you are a "Little House on the Prairie" fan, this book, based on a true story, is for you. The story follows a Native American woman's life as she survives tragedy and ultimately triumphs. I'm not usually much of a reader, (in fact this was an assignment) but I just couldn't put it down! The author did an excellent job capturing the reality of the Native American way, and depicting the main character's struggle with TB; the isolation, loss of friends and her own illness. This book really makes you appreciate your health and everything you have.
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With My Own Eyes tells the history of the nineteenth-century Lakotas. Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun (1857–1945), the daughter of a French-American fur trader and a Brulé Lakota woman, was raised near Fort Laramie and experienced firsthand the often devastating changes forced on the Lakotas. As Bettelyoun grew older, she became increasingly dissatisfied with the way her people’s history was being represented by non-Natives. With My Own Eyes represents her attempt to correct misconceptions about Lakota history. Bettelyoun’s narrative was recorded during the 1930s by another Lakota historian, Josephine Waggoner. This detailed, insightful account of Lakota history was never previously published.
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Open the creaking lid of a rusty-hinged old trunk and look inside to find a dusty frontier sketchbook. Blow away the dust and lift the cover to the first of the pages of time. As the image fills your eyes a voice fills your mind and a heart-wrenching story unfolds in vivid sketches and words as told by Crazy Horse. The first book of the Crazy Horse Chronicles Trilogy, The War of the Mormon Cow introduced the boy called Curly, who becomes Crazy Horse, and the girl called Little Mouse, who becomes Black Robe Woman. In Black Robe Woman, Lakota Warrior our story continues as Crazy Horse looks back to the time just after The War of the Mormon Cow. Black Robe Woman, Lakota Warrior is the second book of The Crazy Horse Chronicles Trilogy. Just one year after The War of the Mormon Cow Curly and Little Mouse are again caught up in the horrors of war as General Harney leads an overwhelming force, to "chastise the Indian." Through luck and heroic venture our heroes survive and grow to maturity against the backdrop of conflicts history dubs the "Indian Wars." Curly becomes Crazy Horse and Little Mouse becomes Black Robe Woman. Crazy Horse earns his name through glory in battle. Black Robe Woman takes her name as a symbol of heartbreak and suffering. She was a real person, as was Crazy Horse, and they were very much in love throughout their lives. It was destined to be a star-crossed love for they were faced with jealousies of clans and families and the struggle for prestige and power. Whether found in Shakespearean tragedy or Lakota villages, youthful love often suffers and falters under the rigors of societal pressures.
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A bittersweet, passionate, fulfilling story of love........2001-03-03
Part II of the "Crazy Horse Chronicles" continues to enthrall. This vivid retelling of the life of Curly, later to become Crazy Horse, explains the early transition to adulthood for Curly and Little Mouse, who become Crazy Horse and Black Robe Buffalo Woman. They grow to maturity during the "Indian Wars" and Crazy Horse earns his name through battle glory. His painful experience of betrayal by family of Little Mouse drives him to forsake his holy name to become "Worm," or One Who Returns to Mother Earth. The bittersweet story of the love of Crazy Horse and Black Robe Buffalo Woman is passionate and fierce and gentle at the same time. Readers will eagerly devour this latest in the series and impatiently await the third in the series.
Nancy Lorraine, Reviewer
A book to heal the heart!.......2001-02-09
Richard Jepperson capably and affirmatively expands his Crazy Horse Chronicles with this touching, tender, fierce, reader-friendly book containing articulate, poetic text and original, beautiful illustrations. There are really only two kinds of books. And they are not children's books and grownups' books but good books and bad books. Black Robe Woman, Lakota Warrior, is most definitely among the former. It's excellent for kids but it is by no means exclusively for them but for all readers of worthy literature. Here is a book you will read to your children and to yourself, not once but over and over again.
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Title: With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History.(Review)
Author: James Taylor Carson
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Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 34
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Page: 135
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A short and thoroughly accurate history of the Auschwitz concentration camp, this compelling book is authoritative in its factual details, devastating in its emotional impact.
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Excellent Introduction to Auschwitz and the Final Solution.......2007-05-22
This is an excellent historical primer on the initiation, conduct, discovery, and destruction of the Auschwitz extermination camp (albeit with a couple of factual and critical thinking errors that need not be delved into here) as well as the disputes after World War II regarding the preservation, administration, and ideation of the camp.
The author discusses in an even-handed, almost dispassionate, manner not only the tragic events that occurred at the camp itself but (1) the association of certain German companies, namely, chemical giant I.G. Farben, with slave labor by camp inmates, (2) the failure of the West to do anything even though it was suspected as early as 1942, and duly reported in London newspapers, that 1 million people had already died in the camp (although this apparently turned out to be an exaggeration), and (3) the failure of the Allies, primarily the U.S., to bomb the railways from Hungary to Auschwitz in the closing months of the war when about 300,000 Hungarian Jews were transported (under the stewardship of Adolf Eichmann) to Auschwitz for immediate termination. (The reason the Allies repeatedly gave for not intervening was that the concentration camps were of no military importance and military assets could not be diverted from the war effort. Although, if memory serves me correctly, the complete and utter lack of a military objective did not stop Patton from diverting his troops to rescue his son-in-law from a German prisoner of war camp.)
As for whether the German people (that is, the public in general) knew about what was going on, the author gives no definitive answer. Certainly anyone involved with the use of slave labor cannot claim ignorance of their mistreatment. Nor, obviously, could anyone who worked in these camps feign lack of knowledge. On the other hand, the author correctly points out that the Final Solution itself, i.e., the ongoing decimation and eventual extermination of the Jewish population in Europe, especially as it was put into place at Auschwitz, was in effect a State secret and disclosure of it was punishable by death.
For anyone who wants to learn about and try to understand Auschwitz and what happened there, this book may be the best place to start. As for any final answers on the Final Solution, that may not be possible. As concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel aptly put it, the more he read, studied, and learned about the Final Solution, the less and less he understood it.
Easy Read. Very Informative........2006-06-13
I had to read this book for a US History class and I was very impressed by the book. At no time was I bored with the book. It's actually very captivating and informative. If you really want a short book that is full of information and does not get boring read this book.
The terrible scope of the horror.......2005-01-10
Most of the previous accounts of Auschwitz that I've read have been personal accounts, most recently Rudolph Vrba's Escape from Auschwitz. While these personal accounts are quite powerful and serve to put a human face on a tragedy of almost inconceivable scope, they are only slivers of the big picture. This book provides a broad overview of the history of Auschwitz, compiled from eyewitness accounts, transcripts of war crimes trials, and the memoirs of Rudolf Hoess and other Nazi's involved in the camp. While it lacks the emotional impact of a more personal account, this book helps shed some light on the scope of the horrors of Auschwitz and Birkeneau and the holocaust in general. By itself, it is an important overview, but if read together with the stories of individual survivors, it provides context for understanding the personal accounts.
Nice and Easy.......2002-07-17
This is a good little book about Auschwitz. It is extremely thin and easy to read (128 pages). If you just want to know a little bit about Auschwitz and are not inclined to read one of the heavy books on the subject then this may be a good alternative. I found it easy to read and did not lack any of the intensity found in the bigger volumes on the subject. It is very detailed. It is also a great book to introduce yourself on the operations of the death camps. This book may spark your interest and you may want to read further on the subject. I finished it in only a few hours. Nice and easy reading.
Intensely Readable Synthesis of the Best Historical Accounts.......2001-08-02
"The Kingdom of Auschwitz" is an extract from Otto Friedrich's larger, sadly out-of-print "The End of the World: A History." In that book Friedrich examined several earth-shaking events in world history including the Black Death in Europe, the 1905 Russian revolution, and the fall of Rome. The book's climax is this long essay on Auschwitz (with an epilogue speculating on the effects of possible nuclear war circa 1982.)
Friedrich was a very talented journalist with a rich appreciation of history and a hypnotically readable prose style. Here he synthesizes the best available literature about the death camp to produce what is probably the best short history of that black hole at the heart of Western civilization. This is a good place to start if you are just beginning to read about the Holocaust. Expert readers will have their sense of the horror of the place renewed. Friedrich writes that Auschwitz does not disprove God: "Two men arguing about the existence of God is like two worker ants debating the existence of Mozart." A small masterpiece.
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- Well done listing of war criminals who served at the KZ Auschwitz
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Commanders Of Auschwitz: The Ss Officers Who Ran The Largest Nazi Concentration Camp -1940-1945 (Schiffer History Book)
Jeremy Dixon
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Finally a single volume detailing the careers of the SS officers who served in the largest and most infamous of Hitler's concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau. This volume begins with a brief history of the camp, then details briefly the different departments that made up the command structure of this camp. The book goes on to describe the evacuation and liberation of Auschwitz and some of the major trials before the author gives brief descriptions of what Auschwitz-Birkenau is like today.
The second part of the book is a biographical study of the SS officers in alphabetical order. The SS officers described inside this book are the commanders of the camp, the men with the power, some with power over life and death. Inside you will meet the commandants, Lagerführers, doctors, dentists, Gestapo officials, adjutants, administration leaders, and Sentry commanders. Some went on to fight at the front and won awards for bravery, others helped to save lives of the inmates, and others of course helped with the administration of the Holocaust.
The biographical detail of this book alone adds vast clarity to the gaps in biographical information in other books on Auschwitz. Inside are the details of 162 SS officers known to have served at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Along with over 130 b/w photographs, some rarely and some never published before is a detailed appendix and index.
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Well done listing of war criminals who served at the KZ Auschwitz.......2007-06-27
I recommend this book for everyone, who likes to know who and what charakters have served during the second world war in the concentration camp Auschwitz. I would say that before this book, you should be familiar with what in general has happened at Auschwitz to understand the crime which occured there. I have appreciated the authors detailled work. I would say it is a very objective book, that does not build on speculations.
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Not what I expected...........2007-01-07
I'm a slow reader and I finished this in 2 days. A sort of "Cliff Notes" on Auschwitz. I'm gonna donate my copy to a school... this is not really worth the $$$$$. The information is there... but nothing you can really sink your teeth into.
Must-read for any student of history.......2002-12-14
Read it once, you'll never read it again--but you'll never forget the contents. And you'll want the rest of the world to read it. The author was the curator of the museum. This is an overview of daily life in the camp, as well as the Nazi killing machinery.
A 5-star rating for coverage - three stars for depth........1999-06-29
This is an easy-to-read-and-understand history of the background of Naziism and how it led to the concentration camps and then to Auschwitz in particular. For readability and coverage, I have to give it five stars. Once you read this book, containing plenty of good photos, and plenty of documentation, you do have a pretty good understanding of what Auschwitz is all about.
This book is a translation of the book "Guide to the Museum" which is sold at Auschwitz. Since it is addressed to the audience of Auschwitz museum-goers, it does have a good bit of that political neutralism you find in institutional documentation as well as the good look of a book you walk out of the museum with and show later to your friends.
It is a little glossy chapbook of sorts, but well worth reading to those not that familiar with the subject, or for those wishing to refresh themselves of Auschwitz history in general.
It sent chills down my spine. A must for decedents........1997-09-07
I've read other books on Auschwitz but this one really stuck in my mind, The photo's and the experiences of this author as a survivor of the horrors of his daily existence in this death camp sent shivers down my spine. How is it possible for people to do this to other human being
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This is a small booklet, this is THIRD edition. It is a kind of guide to Auschwitz with photos of the camp and memories of prisoners.
Cover, visibly worn and a pink stain on ends of 18 pages but inside otherwise in good shape with numerous black and white photos of that tragic period in history.
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