Compassionate Woman is the biography of a woman of Lakota and Chippewa
heritage who was the winner of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1991
for her work to save tribal languages that were becoming extinct
throughout the United States. Locke was the first American Indian to
serve as a senior officer on the National Spiritual Assembly of the
Baha'is of the United States, and she was posthumously inducted into the
National Women's Hall of Fame.