The woman who loved mankind : the life of a twentieth-century Crow elder / Lillian Bullshows Hogan, as told to Barbara Loeb and Mardell Hogan Plainfeather.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1 My Birth and Infancy 1 -- Chapter 2 My Mother 13 -- Chapter 3 My Father 25 -- Chapter 4 My Parents Meet and Marry 47 -- Chapter 5 My First Memories 57 -- Chapter 6 Boarding School 73 -- Chapter 7 Memories of Youth 93 -- Chapter 8 My Mother Teaches Me to Be a Good Woman 147 -- Chapter 9 Tobacco Iipche (Sacred Pipe Society) and the Medicine Dance (Tobacco Society) 175 -- Chapter 10 We Were Always Hard Up 197 -- Chapter 11 The Last Years in School 205 -- Chapter 12 My First Marriage Was to Alex 213 -- Chapter 13 We're Adopted into the Tobacco Society 225 -- Chapter 14 I Married Robbie Yellowtail 229 -- Chapter 15 Paul 241 -- Chapter 16 George 263 -- Chapter 17 The Kids Are Growing Up 307 -- Chapter 18 Sacred Experiences 333 -- Chapter 19 Traditional Healing 341 -- Chapter 20 I Gave Indian Names 357 -- Chapter 21 I'm an Old-Timer 363 -- Chapter 22 Education 379 -- Chapter 23 Life as an Elder 387.

The oldest living Crow at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan (1905-2003) grew up on the Crow reservation in rural Montana. In The Woman Who Loved Mankind she enthralls readers with her own long and remarkable life and the stories of her parents, part of the last generation of Crow born to nomadic ways. As a child Hogan had a miniature teepee, 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. She grew up to be a complex, hard-working Native woman who drove a car, maintained a bank account, and read the local English paper but spoke Crow as her first language, practiced beadwork, tanned hides, honored clan relatives in generous giveaways, and often visited the last of the old chiefs and berdaches with her family. She married in the traditional Crow way and was a proud member of the Tobacco and Sacred Pipe societies but was also a devoted Christian who helped establish the Church of God on her reservation. Warm, funny, heartbreaking, and filled with information on Crow life, Hogan's story was told to her daughter, Mardell Hogan Plainfeather, and to Barbara Loeb, a scholar and longtime friend of the family who recorded her words, staying true to Hogan's expressive speaking rhythms with its echoes of traditional Crow storytelling. -- Publisher.