Pretty-Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows gardening Empire's Tracks boldly reframes the

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Pretty-Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows gardening Empire's Tracks boldly reframes theA rare, documented account of the life of a Crow medicine woman, drawn from interviews conducted by legendary writer and ethnographer Frank Bird Linderman and told in her own words. In the spring of 1931, Pretty shield, a grandmother and medicine healer in the Crow tribe, met Frank Linderman for a series of interviews. When Linderman asked Pretty shield about her life, the old woman relaxed and laughed. "We shall be here until we die." In this rich