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Grandmother's grandchild : my Crow Indian life
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Grandmother's grandchild : my Crow Indian life

Author: Alma Hogan Snell; Becky Matthews
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2000.
Series: American Indian lives.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Snell, Alma Hogan.
Grandmother's grandchild.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000
(OCoLC)607379180
Online version:
Snell, Alma Hogan.
Grandmother's grandchild.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000
(OCoLC)609194400
Named Person: Alma Hogan Snell; Pretty-shield, (Crow Indian)
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alma Hogan Snell; Becky Matthews
ISBN: 0803242778 9780803242777 0803292910 9780803292918
OCLC Number: 41885621
Description: xvii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Peter Nabokov --
Acknowledgments / Becky Matthews --
Introduction / Becky Matthews --
Grandmother's Grandchild --
Pretty Shield and Goes Ahead --
My Camp Is in a Different Place --
Turning the Storm --
Womanhood --
Loneliness and the Night Sky --
Assiniboines Have Strong Medicine --
A Bad Time in My Life --
I Have Crossed Three Rivers --
Many Roads --
Old Songs, New Fruit.
Series Title: American Indian lives.
Responsibility: Alma Hogan Snell ; edited by Becky Matthews.
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"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."--Jacket.

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