This term, popularised by the Subaltern Studies Group of South Asian scholars, is derived from the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci.
I do not know when I came across the term ‘subaltern’: most probably it was in the eighties, in a book dealing with Dalit issues in India. In a sense, it encapsulates the whole tale. The above paragraph appears on the very second page of Mary Crow Dog’s memoir, Lakota Woman.
If you plan to be born, make sure you are born white and male. At age twelve the nuns beat me for "being too free with my body." All I had been doing was holding hands with a boy. " At age ten I could drink and hold a pint of whiskey. Francis Boarding School, the Catholic sisters would take a buggy whip to us for what they called "disobedience. Her work focuses on themes of gender, identity, and race Bureau of Indian Affairs and the treatment of the Native Americans and their children in the mid-1900s. She also covers aspects of the role of the FBI, the U.S. Her books describe the conditions of the Lakota Indian and her experience growing up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, as well as conditions in the neighboring Pine Ridge Indian Reservation under the leadership of tribal chairman Richard Wilson. Ohitika Woman, published under the name Mary Brave Bird, continues her life story. Lakota Woman was published under the name Mary Crow Dog and won the 1991 American Book Award. Richard Erdoes, a long-time friend, helped edit the books. She was raised primarily by her grandparents while her mother studied in nursing school and was working.īrave Bird was the author of two memoirs, Lakota Woman (1990) and Ohitika Woman (1993).
Born Mary Ellen Moore-Richard in 1954 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, she was a member of the Sicangu Oyate, also known as the Burnt Thighs Nation or Brulé Band of Lakota.
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