Grandmother's Grandchild
Subtitle: My Crow Indian Life (American Indian Lives)
Contributors: Becky Matthews (Editor); Peter Nabokov (Preface)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: March 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780803242777
Subjects: Biography: general; Indigenous peoples; Women's studies; Snell, Alma Hogan; Crow women; Women; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Pretty-shield (Crow Indian); Biography/Autobiography; North America; Ethnic Cultures - Native Americans; Native Americans; United States - State & Local - General; History / Native American; People of Color; Biography; Crow Indians
Description: "Grandmother's Grandchild is the remarkable story of Alma Hogan Snell, a Crow woman brought up by her grandmother, the famous medicine woman Pretty Shield. Snell grew up during the 1920s and 1930s, part of the second generation of Crows to be born into reservation life. Like many of her contemporaries, she experienced poverty, personal hardships, and prejudice and left home to attend federal Indian schools.".

"What makes Snell's story particularly engaging is her exceptional storytelling style. She is frank and passionate, and these qualities yield a memoir unlike those of most Native women. The complex reservation world of Crow women - harsh yet joyous, impoverished yet rich in meaning - unfolds for readers.

Snell's experiences range from the forging of an unforgettable bond between grandchild and grandmother to the flowering of an extraordinary love story that has lasted more than five decades."--BOOK JACKET.