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Crow Dog : Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men
Crow Dog Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men Author:Leonard Crow Dog, Richard Erdoes From Leonard Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes comes a compelling account detailing the unique experiences and spiritual knowledge accumulated by four generations of powerful medicine men. — The first Crow Dog, Jerome, a contemporary of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, was a witness to the coming of white soldiers and settlers to the open Great Plains. Hi... more »s son, John Crow Dog, traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. The third Crow Dog, Henry, helped introduce the peyote cult to the Sioux. And in the sixties and seventies, Crow Dog's principal narrator, Leonard Crow Dog, took up the family's political challenge through his involvement with the American Indian Movement (AIM). As a wichasha wakan, or medicine man, Leonard became AIM's spiritual leader and renewed the banned ghost dance. Staunchly traditional, Leonard offers a rare glimpse of Lakota spiritual practices, describing the sun dance and many other rituals that are still central to Sioux life and culture.
Leonard Crow Dog was born in 1942 on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, where he still lives.
Richard Erdoes has written or co-authored over a dozen books, including Lakota Woman, Ohitika Woman, and Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions.« less