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Name

Mary Brave Bird

Heritage

Lakota

Gender

female

Dates

Lifespan

1954-2013

Date Note

birth date September 26, 1954; death date February 14, 2013

Birthplace

Rosebud

South Dakota

Specialty / Medium

writing

autobiography

External Remarks

Artist's file in Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum.

"Mary Brave Bird, also known as Mary Brave Woman Olguin, Mary Crow Dog (September 26, 1954 – February 14, 2013 was a Sicangu Lakota writer and activist who was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s and participated in some of their most publicized events, including the Wounded Knee Incident when she was 18 years old. Brave Bird lived with her youngest children on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota. Her 1990 memoir Lakota Woman won an American Book Award in 1991 and was adapted as a made-for-TV-movie in 1994."--Wikipedia contributors, "Mary Brave Bird," Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary_Brave_Bird&oldid=962971610 (accessed August 29, 2020).

Artist’s physical folder is filed alphabetically in the Native American Artists Resource Collection under the following name:

Brave Bird, Mary

Publications

Found 5 record(s)

Citation	Pages	Publication Date	Artist Citation Notes	Website
Brave Bud, Mary and Richard Erdoes. OHITIKA WOMAN. (New York: Grove Press). 1993.		1993
Crow Dog, Mary and Richard Erdoes. LAKOTA WOMAN. (New York: Grove Press). 1990.		1990
Laegreid, Renee M. and Sandra K. Mathews (editors), with foreword by Joan M. Jensen. Women on the North American Plains. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press. 2011.	80-85, 264 (note 83)	2011	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sonneborn, Liz. A to Z of Native American Women. New York, New York: Facts on File. 1998.	19-22	1998	In series: Encyclopedia of Women
Wikipedia contributors. "Mary Brave Bird". In: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (host URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/) at source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Brave_Bird. 2005.		2005	Current entry for Mary Brave Bird in Wikipedia (viewed August 29, 2020); webpage created October 22, 2005, revised and updated irregularly.	View

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