Frank Fools Crow
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Religion, Ethics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Civil Rights, Minority Rights
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present, American Indian History
Article abstract: A holy man and civic leader, Frank Fools Crow was instrumental in preserving traditional tribal customs, as well as denouncing the social ills that were eroding his native culture.
A nephew of the Lakota visionary Black Elk , Fools Crow was raised in the traditional Sioux manner. When he was thirteen, a holy man named Stirrup took him on his first vision quest. In 1923, Fools Crow formally began his training as a medicine man and eventually became adept at the sweat lodge and Yuwipi ceremonies. Because he often did not receive payment for his...
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