Crazy Brave and her Crazy Horse

JOY HARJO — CRAZY BRAVE — 2012

A short memoir on the author’s own life as a young Indian woman. As such she both lives in her own time the re-emergence of Indian Tribes and Nation — and was as an Indian very lucky to be able to integrate the Indian cultural Center of Santa Fe as a high school students — and the women’s liberation movement within the Indian tribes and nation — and was as a woman very unlucky with her father, her stepfather, her submissive mother and her successive boyfriends and husbands. She alludes once to the postcolonial atmosphere in this fight or struggle for recognition as an Indian and as an Indian woman. It seems clear Indian men are a lot less lucky than Indian women. Indian men due to the past of their tribes and nation systematically fall into alcoholic celebrations, which means overdrinking, drunkenness and then compensating their historical and cultural frustration with violence among Indians, against their life-partners and against whites if any are around. What’s more, these male Indians consider women as pleasure tools and have absolutely no faithfulness. Promiscuity and sexual hunting seem to be natural to them, meaning there cannot be any limit on their unfaithfulness and promiscuous hunting. The more the better, though they seem to like having one slightly more permanent woman for daily service, any service, including children.