The Woman Who Loved Mankind: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Crow Elder - Hardcover

Lillian Bullshows Hogan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803216130 ISBN 13: 9780803216136

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2012

Synopsis

The oldest living Crow at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan (1905 - 2003) grew up on the Crow reservation in rural Montana. In The Woman Who Loved Mankind she enthralls readers with her own long and remarkable life and the stories of her parents, part of the last generation of Crow born to nomadic ways.
As a child Hogan had a miniature teepee, a fast horse, and a medicine necklace of green beads; she learned traditional arts and food gathering from her mother and experienced the bitterness of Indian boarding school. She grew up to be a complex, hard-working Native woman who drove a car, maintained a bank account, and read the local English paper but spoke Crow as her first language, practiced beadwork, tanned hides, honored clan relatives in generous giveaways, and often visited the last of the old chiefs and berdaches with her family. She married in the traditional Crow way and was a proud member of the Tobacco and Sacred Pipe societies but was also a devoted Christian who helped establish the Church of God on her reservation.
Warm, funny, heartbreaking, and filled with information on Crow life, Hogan's story was told to her daughter, Mardell Hogan Plainfeather, and to Barbara Loeb, a scholar and longtime friend of the family who recorded her words, staying true to Hogan's expressive speaking rhythms with its echoes of traditional Crow storytelling.

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Review:

"This fascinating book is part autobiography, part history, part memoir, part cultural guide, and part poetry. . . . Loeb and Plainfeather made the wise decision to adopt an ethnopoetic approach to the reminiscences, thus preserving not only Lillian's words but also the rhythm and structure of her speaking. This choice elevates the book. The stories themselves are interesting, but the preservation of oral performance lends an intimate and important cultural feel to the work."--J. B./I>--J. B. Edwards "Choice "

"Essential reading for new and seasoned students and scholars of American Indian cultures."--Kelly M./I>--Kelly M. Branam "Great Plains Quarterly "

"A must read for anyone interested in native, feminist, or humanistic studies."--Timothy P./I>--Timothy P. McCleary "Montana, The Magazine of Western History "

"Hogan's stories read like an epic poem."--Cal Cumin, Billings Gazette--Cal Cumin"Billings Gazette" (02/16/2014)

About the Author:

Barbara Loeb taught Native art history at Oregon State University, USA. She is the author of Felice Lucero-Giaccardo: A Contemporary Pueblo Painter and numerous writings on Crow and Plateau Indian art and culture.

Mardell Hogan Plainfeather is the daughter of Lillian Bullshows Hogan. She is retired as a supervisory park ranger with the National Park Service and as a Crow field director of the American Indian Tribal Histories Project at the Western Heritage Center in Billings, Montana, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0803216130
• ISBN 13: 9780803216136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Barbara Loeb, Mardell Hogan Plainfeather