Drugs Case - Mary Crow Dog

drugs are badMary Crow Dog was a Woman who Fought for not only the rights of her people, but for women as well. Mary Crow Dog wanted her readers to understand how hard it was growing up the way she did. She used her struggles, and trials to try and give us readers a visual picture of how she tried to change things that she could, and accept the things she couldn't. Being accepted as Lakota Woman was no easy task for Mary Crow Dog. In reading this essay you will discover how she fought for rights, Gained acceptance, and helped others

Fighting for rights wasn't easy for Mary Crow Dog. In the first chapter of her book she describes how there is an M-16 pointed at her head. Her exact words were(pg4) "In 1975 the feds put the muzzle of their M-16 against my head threatening to blow me away. It's hard being an Indian woman". At this moment as a writer Mary Crow Dog is putting her feelings on display. She wants readers to feel her pain, and imagine how they would feel to be in her shoes. I can't even fathom how scary this experience may have been. I can only commend her for her bravery. This is an experience Mary Crow Dog was faced with yet had no control over and could not change. Rights were not given to Indians they were fought for them, by protesting and standing firm on their beliefs. Indians had everything stripped away from them, and were forced to live the ways of the white man. This was not fair but there was only so much that could be done so that everyone was treated equally. This never actually happened but Mary crow dog shows us here how she tried to fight for what was right. Mary crow Dog made a statement that meant a lot she stated that "We don't want to fight the white man, but only the white man's system." Mary Crow Dog wasn't trying to start a war she only wanted to be granted with her god given rights. This example she wants readers to see that she was trying to make peace not war. This statement may have even been a way for readers to see how bad the whites treated the Indian culture as a whole.

To Gain acceptance is to gain a sense of approval, and to also favorable reception. To know that you are accepted for whom you are means a lot. Mary Crow Dog struggled to gain acceptance joining AIM(pg 76) was something she did to try and gain acceptance for who she really was deep down inside. The readers message here is that acceptance wasn't given to us we earned it. Mary Crow Dog gives an example when is a little girl "In South Dakota white kids learn to be racist almost before they learn to walk. When I was about seven or eight years old I fought with the schools principals daughter." The principal's daughter had called a Mary Crow Dog monkey, in defense Mary Crow Dog beat her up. Mary Crow Dog didn't think it was right for the girl to treat her that way. Fighting back was her way of trying to prove her point that there was nothing wrong

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