Awards & Winners

Mary Crow Dog

Date of Birth 26-September-1954
Place of Birth Rosebud Indian Reservation
(South Dakota, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Mary Brave Bird, Mary Brave Woman Olguin, Mary Ellen Moore-Richard, Ohitaki Win
Profession Writer, Author, Activist
Mary Brave Bird, also known as Mary Brave Woman Olguin, Mary Crow Dog, Mary Ellen Moore-Richard 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 20 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. She died in 2013.

Awards by Mary Crow Dog

Check all the awards nominated and won by Mary Crow Dog.

1991


American Book Awards
Honored for : Lakota Woman