The Woman Who Loved Mankind - 9781496243379

University of Nebraska Press

The Woman Who Loved MankindThe Life of a Twentieth-Century Crow Elder\nAuthor(s): Lillian Bullshows Hogan, Barbara Loeb, Mardell Hogan Plainfeather\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496243379, 978-1496243379\nSynopsis\nThe oldest living Crow at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan, grew up on the Crow reservation in rural Montana. In The Woman Who Loved Mankind she enthralls readers with stories from her long and remarkable life and the stories of her parents, part of the last generation of Crow born to nomadic ways.\n\n As a child Hogan had a miniature tepee, 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. As an adult she drove a car, maintained a bank account, and read the local English paper, but she spoke Crow as her first language, prac.