Entry 1: How White Men Affected Her In the beginning of the book, Mary Crow Dog immediately tells the audience about how hard being an Indian woman is in the face of white men, through repetition and examples like: “I am a woman of the Red Nation, a Sioux woman. That is not easy.”(Crow Dog, pg. 3) and “It is hard being an Indian woman.”(Crow Dog, pg. 4) She says that she is a victim of sexual violence because she is not respected due to her race and gender, “At age 15 I was raped.” (Crow Dog, pg. 4) White men do not treat her fellow female Native Americans or her properly. For example, her sister was given a hysterectomy against her will in a white hospital.
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This hatred became really clear to her when she was sent to a catholic school by her mother, where she and her fellow skins were treated horribly. “Beating was a common punishment for not doing one’s homework, or for being late to school. It had such a bad effect upon me that I hated and mistrusted every white person on sight, because I met only one kind…Racism breeds racism in reverse.”(Crow Dog, pg. 34) She explained that because she was treated so unfairly she grew to hate whites as so many hated her. The girls who were near white got better treatment as well and were the favorites of the nuns. “They...got to eat eggs and bacon in the morning. They got the easy jobs while the skins, who did not have the right kind of background—myself among them—always wound up in the laundry room…O we would wind up scrubbing the floors and doing all the dishes.” (Crow Dog, pg. 38) This is only on repeat throughout her life and all she has known from the past and shapes her future decisions like joining AIM and making protests for Indian
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This hatred became really clear to her when she was sent to a catholic school by her mother, where she and her fellow skins were treated horribly. “Beating was a common punishment for not doing one’s homework, or for being late to school. It had such a bad effect upon me that I hated and mistrusted every white person on sight, because I met only one kind…Racism breeds racism in reverse.”(Crow Dog, pg. 34) She explained that because she was treated so unfairly she grew to hate whites as so many hated her. The girls who were near white got better treatment as well and were the favorites of the nuns. “They...got to eat eggs and bacon in the morning. They got the easy jobs while the skins, who did not have the right kind of background—myself among them—always wound up in the laundry room…O we would wind up scrubbing the floors and doing all the dishes.” (Crow Dog, pg. 38) This is only on repeat throughout her life and all she has known from the past and shapes her future decisions like joining AIM and making protests for Indian