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# Crazy Brave: A Memoir

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    a calling forth of spirits.
  

*by R***O on Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2023*

You feel that this memoir was channeled through ancestors. What a hybrid of joy and sorrow, erudition and instinct. An added pleasure to hear it in the author’s own voice

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    Harjo is Crazy Brave: A Review
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2014*

Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave, is a poignant and artistic memoir that provides readers with both lyrical and poetic lines and also recollections of historical substance.  She combines beauty and truth in an elegant and effective way.  Instead of dry, historical text, Harjo touches on difficult subjects such as Native American oppression, alcoholism, domestic abuse, and the feminist movement through her poetry and a first person account in a gentle tone, making these broad and daunting subjects pliable and relatable.  She handles the idea of feminism and the oppression she faced as a Native female with particular grace.  It is in her soft words that readers are led to the conclusion that Native American women were left behind in the feminist movement.  Harjo depicts the trials of being both female and Native American and how the combination of the two was set aside and disregarded. Growing up with an Alcoholic father and step father, Harjo experienced alcoholism and domestic abuse at a young age.  The two male figures in her young life would get drunk and abuse her mother, her and her siblings.  Alcoholism, being prevalent in Native American communities, the living situation Harjo grew up in was more or less common and therefore, looked over.  There was no help for women in these types of situations as Harjo explains, “There were no safe houses or domestic abuse shelters then, especially for native women.  We weren’t supposed to be talking about personal difficulties when our peoples were laying down their lives for the cause” (158).  The growing grimness of the lives of Native women was being looked over due to larger and “more important” social movements such as Native rights, Civil Rights, and (White) Women’s rights.  She speaks of the issues of domestic violence due to alcohol throughout the book, as it follows her into her own relationships.  It is not until a self-realization made through creative outlets that she triumphs over this issue on her own.  Though Harjo solved her own personal problem, many Native women were left to face the battle of domestic violence without the help of an empowering movement that so many other minority groups had. Another issue specific to females that Harjo touches on is forced sterilization.  She recounts,“During my last visit to the clinic at the Indian hospital I was given the option of being sterilized.  It was explained to me that the moment of birth was the best time.  I was handed the form but chose not to sign…Many Indian women who weren’t fluent in English signed, thinking it was a form giving consent for the doctor to deliver their baby.  Others were sterilized without even the formality of signing” (Harjo 121).This was a widespread issue at the time and unfortunately, happening to many Native women that could not speak English.  Forced sterilization took place in the 1970’s among other poor cultures as well, such as Puerto Ricans, Blacks, and Chicanos, but Native women were unique in their reliance on government aide explains Torpy, a writer for the American Indian Culture and Research Journal,“[Native] women were especially accessible victims due to several unique cultural and societal realities setting them apart from other minorities. Tribal dependence on the federal government through the Indian Health Service (IHS), the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) robbed them of their children and jeopardized their future as sovereign nations” (1).This huge and vile issue, like domestic violence, was overshadowed by larger movements at the time, even movements pertaining to Natives. Being both Native and a woman in the 1970’s was being at the utmost disadvantage.  These women did not fit in with the women fighting for gender equality because they were Native American, not white.  They did not fit in for the Native American’s fighting for rights because they were women, regarded as lesser.  They were left behind in the two social movements that should have worked at empowering them, but instead, left them to fend for themselves. Surely not all Native American women at this time were able to gain strength and rebuild themselves as Harjo did.  We are given an opportunity to read and see her creative talent.  Her writing style is unique, dreamlike, and immensely expressive.  Harjo used her artistic talents to make her own movement.  It was through her poetry and art that she found her voice and was able to gain a self-assuredness that others were gaining through demonstrations and protest.  Harjo’s memoir brings voice to those who were left behind.  She brings awareness to the many social wrongs that these women faced and though her memoir recounts a past, the resurfacing of the hurt and injustices pays respect to the many women that went unspoken for.Works CitedHarjo, Joy. Crazy Brave: A Memoir. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012. Print.Torpy, Sally J. "Native American Women And Coerced Sterilization: On The Trail Of Tears In  The 1970S." American Indian Culture & Research Journal 24.2 (2000): 1. Academic  Search Complete. Web. 24 Nov. 2013.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Amazing.
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2023*

The first time I read it, I read it quickly (it's a short book) and most of the imagery, symbolism, deep discussion and inquiry flew over my head. I knew I missed the book in it's whole-so I read it again. The second time I read it, I read it slowly, took notes, made connections. What a masterpiece. What a brilliant woman and writer. She is an inspiration and inspired through the words and sequence of life on her book.

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