irene bedard look great a she smile through parochial school and which be describe by mary crow dog like this in her book represent when i be a small girl at the st. francis board school and the catholic sister would take a buggy whip to u for what they call wouldisobedience . at age ten i could drink and hold a pint of whiskey . at age twelve the nun beat me for be too free with my body . all i have be do be hold hand with a boy . at age fifteen i be rap . if you plan to be bear and make sure you be bear white and male . the bad we see of school be the cutting of the braid and louse powder . mary crow dog describe hellishly turbulent time in the book and yet the movie gloss over them . racism and brutal living condition and drunkenness and poverty and be all address in detail in the book and but sanitize for the viewer protection in the film . all we see be mary smoking cigarette and refuse beer in the back seat of a car . the happily ever after end of the film fail to address the many year and thousand of dollar it take to get her husband and leonard and out of prison follow the event . oh and wait and the film do not even show her marry leonard crow dog . just a vague hint that he might be the father of her child . the book also describe many tribal custom and ritual that the movie gloss over and which make it look like so much mumbo jumbo and oh and look and theyre dance around in a circle and without any understanding of the significance to the lakota people of the sun dance and ghost dance and which be cover in detail in the book . although i like irene bedard and think she a fine actress and i just do not think she convey the rage and anger that leap off every page of mary crow dog book . ultimately and though and that rage isn not in the script for her to convey . read the book .