Honor the grandmothers : Dakota and Lakota women tell their stories / compiled and edited by Sarah Penman.

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Penman, Sarah, 1950-

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Honor the grandmothers.LOC classification:

E99.D1 H75 2000

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Celane Not Help Him -- Stella Pretty Sounding Flute -- Cecilia Hernandez Montgomery -- Iola Columbus.

Summary: In this collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own words. Growing up and living in Minnesota and the Dakotas, Stella Pretty Sounding Flute and Iola Columbus (Dakota) and Celane Not Help Him and Cecelia Hernandez Montgomery (Lakota) share recollections of early family life interrupted by years at government boarding schools designed to eradicate tribal culture. Recounting their lives, the grandmothers reveal how they survived difficult circumstances to become activists in Indian politics, reconciling urban with reservation life and Christianity with native spirituality.

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Celane Not Help Him -- Stella Pretty Sounding Flute -- Cecilia Hernandez Montgomery -- Iola Columbus.

In this collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own words. Growing up and living in Minnesota and the Dakotas, Stella Pretty Sounding Flute and Iola Columbus (Dakota) and Celane Not Help Him and Cecelia Hernandez Montgomery (Lakota) share recollections of early family life interrupted by years at government boarding schools designed to eradicate tribal culture. Recounting their lives, the grandmothers reveal how they survived difficult circumstances to become activists in Indian politics, reconciling urban with reservation life and Christianity with native spirituality.

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