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    The Woman Who Loved Mankind
    The Life of a Twentieth-Century Crow Elder

    Lillian Bullshows Hogan (Author), Barbara Loeb (Edited by), Mardell Hogan Plainfeather (Edited by)

    9781496243379

    Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2025

    496 pages, 22 photographs, 1 illustration, 5 genealogies, 1 map, index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

    “The Woman Who Loved Mankind is the best of Plains Indian women’s stories ever put into print. Its innovative, conversational format allows readers to almost hear Lillian Bullshows Hogan whispering her personal life and Crow Indian traditions into their ears. It is a stunning achievement and pioneering contribution to American Indian studies, women’s studies, and American literature in general.”-Peter Nabokov, author Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior
    “The vignettes are golden, unpolished nuggets. A few biographies of Native women have been released recently, but this is the only one that allows the speaker’s words to resonate so that the reader may ‘hear’ them. . . . It is an ideal entry into understanding ApsÁalooke reservation life. The sensitive presentation of Hogan’s words and memories, coupled with the authors’ introductory statements, provide insights into the development of the Crow reservation through descriptions of changing lifestyles, struggles of family relations, religious and political commitments, and the resilience of Native beliefs and practices. The Woman Who Loved Mankind is a must-read for anyone interested in Native, feminist, or humanistic studies.”-Timothy P. McCleary, Montana: The Magazine of Western History
    "This fascinating book is part autobiography, part history, part memoir, part cultural guide, and part poetry. . . . Loeb and Plainfeather made the wise decision to adopt an ethnopoetic approach to the reminiscences, thus preserving not only Lillian's words but also the rhythm and structure of her speaking. This choice elevates the book. The stories themselves are interesting, but the preservation of oral performance lends an intimate and important cultural feel to the work."—J. B. Edwards, Choice
    "Hogan's stories read like an epic poem."-Cal Cumin, Billings Gazette
    "Essential reading for new and seasoned students and scholars of American Indian cultures."—Kelly M. Branam, Great Plains Quarterly

    The oldest living Crow at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan, grew up on the Crow reservation in rural Montana. In The Woman Who Loved Mankind she enthralls readers with stories from her long and remarkable life and the stories of her parents, part of the last generation of Crow born to nomadic ways.

    As a child Hogan had a miniature tepee, a fast horse, and a medicine necklace of green beads; she learned traditional arts and food gathering from her mother and experienced the bitterness of Indian boarding school. As an adult she drove a car, maintained a bank account, and read the local English paper, but she spoke Crow as her first language, practiced beadwork, tanned hides, and often visited the last of the old chiefs and berdaches with her family. Though she married in the traditional Crow way and was a proud member of the Tobacco and Sacred Pipe societies, she also helped establish a Christian church on her reservation.

    Hogan’s stories are warm, funny, heartbreaking, and brimming with information about Crow life. Hogan told her stories to her daughter, Mardell Hogan Plainfeather, and to Barbara Loeb, a scholar and longtime friend of the family whose record of her words stays true to Hogan’s expressive speaking rhythms with its echoes of traditional Crow storytelling.
     

    List of Illustrations 
    Acknowledgments 
    Introduction by Barbara Loeb 
    Thoughts about My Mother by Mardell Hogan Plainfeather 
    Genealogies 
    Chapter One: My Birth and Infancy 
    Chapter Two: My Mother 
    Chapter Three: My Father 
    Chapter Four: My Parents Meet and Marry 
    Chapter Five: My First Memories 
    Chapter Six: Boarding School 
    Chapter Seven: Memories of Youth 
    Chapter Eight: My Mother Teaches Me to Be a Good Woman 
    Chapter Nine: Tobacco Iipche (Sacred Pipe Society) and the Medicine Dance (Tobacco Society) 
    Chapter Ten: We Were Always Hard Up 
    Chapter Eleven: The Last Years in School 
    Chapter Twelve: My First Marriage Was to Alex 
    Chapter Thirteen: We're Adopted into the Tobacco Society 
    Chapter Fourteen: I Married Robbie Yellowtail 
    Chapter Fifteen: Paul 
    Chapter Sixteen: George 
    Chapter Seventeen: The Kids Are Growing Up 
    Chapter Eighteen: Sacred Experiences 
    Chapter Nineteen: Traditional Healing 
    Chapter Twenty: I Gave Indian Names 
    Chapter Twenty-One: I'm an Old-Timer 
    Chapter Twenty-Two: Education 
    Chapter Twenty-Three: Life as an Elder 
    Bibliography 
    Index 

     

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