Crow Dog Quotes

“I am not afraid to die.
If I die at Wounded Knee,
I will go where Crazy Horse
and Sitting Bull
and our grandfathers are. -Crow Dog”
― Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman

“It took some two hundred thousand dollars to get him out of jail in slightly under two years. While I was happy to see him free, I had a bad conscience thinking of the many nameless kids who had stuck their necks out in all the AIM confrontations languishing in the slammer, unable to raise money for bail or defense.”
― Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman

“Is it right for me to be kept from my people, from my earth? The house of my mother and father has been burned down. This is where seven generations of Crow Dogs have lived. I am in the penitentiary and could not help my family save the house. I can only watch the iron bars. But even here, today, I can feel my grandfather's heartbeat and hear the echo of the drum.”
― Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman

“And there was the cry: “All you Wounded Knee veterans, stand up!” And so we stood there— Clyde and Crow Dog, Carla and Ron and Carter and myself—and they sang the honoring song for us. They say the movement is dead, but it isn’t. We’re still working for the people; we are still here. You can’t stop us now.”
― Mary Brave Bird