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A review by pipoot
Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
2.0
Don’t really get how this is a national bestseller, I love learning about Native American history and personal experiences but this wasn’t it.
I never really understood what was happening and why. It felt broken and disorganized. Not a fan of the ritual where they kill dogs. Just my personal opinion but it was alright. Overly repetitive.
I have a ton of empathy for the poor experiences they had at American hospitals where they didn’t have a choice and were sterilized :(
in the 1960s and 1970s, the Indian Health Service (IHS) and collaborating physicians sustained a practice of performing sterilizations on Native American women, in many cases without the informed consent of their patients. In some cases, women were misled into believing that the sterilization procedure was reversible.
I never really understood what was happening and why. It felt broken and disorganized. Not a fan of the ritual where they kill dogs. Just my personal opinion but it was alright. Overly repetitive.
I have a ton of empathy for the poor experiences they had at American hospitals where they didn’t have a choice and were sterilized :(
in the 1960s and 1970s, the Indian Health Service (IHS) and collaborating physicians sustained a practice of performing sterilizations on Native American women, in many cases without the informed consent of their patients. In some cases, women were misled into believing that the sterilization procedure was reversible.