Mary Ellen Moore-Richard, AIM activist and author, passes at 58
Posted: Monday, March 4, 2013
Mary Ellen Moore-Richard, an American Indian Movement activist and author, died on February 14. She was 58.
Moore-Richard was a member of the
Rosebud Sioux Tribe. She joined AIM in her teens and later wrote about her experiences in
Lakota Woman![](http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=indianzcombookst&l=as2&o=1&a=0802145426)
under the name Mary Crow Dog and
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under the name Mary Brave Bird.
“Before AIM came, people didn’t have their long hair, people didn’t have their Indian pride,” Moore-Richard told The Los Angeles Times. “Everybody was assimilated. These people still put AIM people down, but now they are having sun dances."
Moore-Richard also detailed her experiences in a Catholic boarding school on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. She was punished for speaking the Lakota language and for criticizing priests and nuns at the school.
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