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Adult Books - Nonfiction - History - U.S. History
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Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman’s Story.
Swan, Madonna (author) and Mark St. Pierre (author).
Nov. 1991. 201p. Univ. of Oklahoma, hardcover, $19.95 (0-8061-2369-9). 973’.0497502.
REVIEW.
First published November 15, 1991 (Booklist).
A fascinating biography of Madonna Swann Abdalla, a Lakota Sioux woman born in 1928 on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. In a series of interviews conducted by Mark St. Pierre, Madonna Swan recounts her life growing up on the reservation, her extended stay at a Sioux sanitarium for victims of tuberculosis, her marriage, family life, and college years. Madonna returned to the reservation to teach in the Head Start Program. This is an affecting, firsthand account of the will to survive, to grow, and to prevail in spite of prejudice and illness. Highly recommended. (Reviewed Nov. 15, 1991)— Jane Jurgens
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