Pretty Shield

Pretty Shield

Infobox Person
name = Pretty Shield


caption = Pretty Shield
dead = dead
birth_date = 1856
death_date = 1944

Pretty Shield (1856-1944) was a medicine woman of the Crow Nation. Her autobiography was written with the help of Frank B. Linderman, who interviewed her using an interpreter and sign language. This book was perhaps the first record of the women’s side of Native American life. [ [http://www.redlodgebooks.com/newbooks/0803280254.html Pretty Shield] ] The Pretty Shield Foundation is named in her honor.

Biography

Born in 1856 to Kills-in-the-Night and Crazy-Sister-in-Law, Pretty Shield was the fourth of eleven children. Her name was given to her by her grandfather when she was four days old and it was considered a ‘name of honor’ - commemorating her grandfather's handsome war shield, which was big medicine. [Wong, Hertha Dawn "Sending my Heart Back Across the Years", (Oxford University Press, 1992) page 100]

At the age of three, her mother sent her away to be raised by a widowed aunt, Strikes-with-an-Ax; a River Crow woman who had lost her two young daughters. [ [http://www.enotes.com/salem-history/pretty-shield Pretty Shield Biography] ] Pretty Shield herself ended up raising nine grandchildren on her own, after the death of her husband, Goes Ahead, as well as her daughters. [Wong, Hertha Dawn "Sending my Heart Back Across the Years", (Oxford University Press, 1992)]

External Sources

* [http://www.prettyshield.com/ "Pretty Shield Foundation"]
* [http://unp2.unl.edu/bookinfo/4485.html "Pretty-shield - University of Nebraska Press"]

Resources

Film

* [http://www.nativespiritinfo.com Native Spirit and the Sun Dance Way] , DVD documentary, 2007, World Wisdom


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