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Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian
From pony to airplane, from medicine dance to Christian worship,
Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder
is the life story of a Winnebago woman, told in her own words to her adopted kinswoman, Nancy Lurie. This retelling of more than seventy-five years of Native American life is both a candid and compelling account of how one woman lived through a period of cultura
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176 pages
Published
June 1st 1961
by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL
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Adapted from the back cover: This is the life story of a Winnebago Indian woman as told in her own words to her adopted kinswoman, Nancy Lurie. Most Native American ethnographic biographies/autobiographies focus on men; this is therefore a unique account. Mountain Wolf Woman tells of her childhood in Wisconsin, her brief stay at a mission school, her marriages (the first to a man to whom her brother—Crashing Thunder—owed a drinking debt), and her religious experiences with peyote.
I grew up in west central Wisconsin and went to school with a number of Ho Chunk friends. I went on to read this when I took a Native American literature class at college. It opened up a whole new understanding of my friends and the background of the other life they led when they weren't "in the white world".
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