Mary Brave Bird Quotes

1953–2013 United States

Mary Brave Bird (born 1953 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota - 14 February 2013), often known by her previous married name, Mary Crow Dog, is a Native American writer and activist.

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Also known as: Mary Crow Dog

Random Mary Brave Bird quote

3 quotes

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Lakota Woman (1990)

The blacks want what the whites have, which is understandable. They want in. We Indians want out! That is the main difference.

Lakota Woman (1990)

We did freak out the honkies. We were feared throughout the Dakotas. I could never figure out why this should have been so. We were always the victims. We never maimed or killed. It was we who died or got crippled.

Lakota Woman (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary Brave Bird (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.