men think that all a woman is good for is having sex with and watching the children. Some men would come home drunk and beat their wives. Mary Crow Dog’s best friend Annie Mae Aquash a young, strong-hearted woman was found dead in the snow with a .38 caliber slug in her head. A drunken man beat another woman, Mary Crow Dogs’ sister-in-law; she was left with a broken arm and leg to die in a blizzard. Women were sterilized against their will. Outside the reservation the white mans attitudes towards the American Indian woman only worsen. Remarks such as, “Look at the tits on that squaw. Watch her shaking her ass at us. I bet we could show that Injun squaw a good time,” was commonplace outside of the reservation. Whether inside the reservation or outside of it, being an American Indian was and still isn’t easy. The life of a Native American is filled with poverty, oppression and violence (Usually at the hands of a white man.). The women have to deal with this and much more including harassment both physically and sexually. Even today, the white man cannot stay out of the affairs of the Native American Indian. The white man has elections as to see what exactly is right and wrong for the American Indian to do on his own land. It seams as though that the white man will never leave the Native people of this land to their own business. To this day he has tried to find ways of keeping control over what he should have no control of to begin with. ...
