Pretty-shield
Subtitle: medicine woman of the Crows
By: by Frank B. Linderman ; illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops.
Edition: Bison book ed.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780803257917
Subjects: Pretty-shield (Crow Indian).; Indian women -- North America.; Crow Indians.; Indians, North American.; Shamanism -- North America.; Women -- North America.
Description: Pretty-shield told her story to Frank Linderman through an interpreter and using the sign language. A medicine woman of the Crows, she was one of the few who remembered what it was like before the white man came and the buffalo went away. She tells about the simple games and dolls of an Indian childhood and the duties of the girls and women--setting up the lodges, dressing the skins, picking berries, digging roots, cooking. From her account we learn about courtship, marriage, childbirth and the care of babies, about medicine-dreams, the care of the sick, and the dangers and joys of womanhood among men whose lives were spent in hunting and fighting.