Marriage and Family
Brave Bird's first child Pedro was born during the 1973 siege at Wounded Knee, the only one born there. For her bravery, two medicine men gave her the name Ohitaki Win or Brave Woman.
Brave Bird later married AIM spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog. Together the couple had two sons, Anwah and June Bug, and a daughter, Jennifer. Brave Bird divorced Leonard Crow Dog.
In 1991, she married Rudi Olguin, and they had a daughter Summer Rose and a son Rudi. Olguin and Brave Bird parted. She lives in Rosebud, South Dakota, with her youngest children. She is a grandmother and is still active in the Native American Church.
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