Leonard Crow Dog
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Civil Rights, Minority Rights
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History
Article abstract: Leonard Crow Dog acted as a spiritual adviser to the American Indian Movement (AIM){$IAmerican Indian Movement;and Crow Dog, Leonard[Crow Dog, Leonard]} during the period of its greatest activism during the 1960's and 1970's.
Leonard Crow Dog is best known for his book, Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men (1995), which chronicles the lives of Sioux medicine men from the time of the Indian surrender to the federal government during the 1890's until his own time. He was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, where...
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