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Buffalo Woman Paperback – November 1, 1995

by Dorothy M. Johnson (Author)
4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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Whirlwind belonged to the Oglala Sioux, the people of Crazy Horse. Born in 1820 near the Black Hills, she knew prosperity—her father could afford an expensive Buffalo Maiden ceremony—and eventually tragedy.

 

The Indian woman feels profoundly the chill of change: the decimation of the buffalo, the coming of white settlers to the Great Plains, the wars that reduce her people to raggedness. After the Battle of the Little Big Horn and an attack that leaves her band homeless, Grandmother Whirlwind faces her final challenge in joining the band’s journey through snow toward refuge in Canada. With attention to timeless humanity and time-bound history, Dorothy M. Johnson’s novel follows the life of Whirlwind, seeing through her eyes the daily routine and rituals of the Sioux.
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    248 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Bison Books
  4. Publication date
    November 1, 1995
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0803275838
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0803275836
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"Dorothy M. Johnson’s use of the woman’s point of view is a rare contribution to the western. . . . [Buffalo Woman is a] powerful novel presenting the dilemma of the displaced Indian in a white man’s world, written from the Indian point of view . . . [and] characterized by conciseness of prose style and accuracy of detail."—Judy Alter in Twentieth-Century Western Writers

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Whirlwind belonged to the Oglala Sioux, the people of Crazy Horse. Born in 1820 near the Black Hills, she knew prosperity - her father could afford an expensive Buffalo Maiden ceremony - and eventually tragedy. The Indian woman feels profoundly the chill of change: the decimation of the buffalo, the coming of white settlers to the Great Plains, the wars that reduce her people to raggedness. After the Battle of the Little Big Horn and an attack that leaves her band homeless, Grandmother Whirlwind faces her final challenge in joining the band's journey through snow toward refuge in Canada. With attention to timeless humanity and time-bound history, Dorothy M. Johnson's novel follows the life of Whirlwind, seeing through her eyes the daily routine and rituals of the Sioux.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bison Books; Unabridged edition (November 1, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0803275838
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0803275836
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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A sad but truthful account of the Oglala Sioux. Well written
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5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful...and heartbreaking.
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2003
My grade school was getting rid of some of its overstock by giving away some of its books. Dorothy M. Johnson's Buffalo Woman was one I happened to take. I am eternally glad I did. She does a wonderful job of pulling the reader into the story. When reading this book, you will begin to feel like you know the characters personally. The fact that they are Native Americans living about two hundred years in the past doesn't matter. Johnson's writing enables the reader to identify with them anyhow. I highly recommend this one, especially to those with an interest in Native American culture.
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Not a book for everyone, but a very good read for the amateur historian and/or anthropologist. It describes the tribal society in the relatively benign years prior to direct European contact and the increasingly destructive effect of the "white mans" inroads on the environment and society of the tribal peoples. It does this by portraying a good story of people and families, not painted savages, over half a century.
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