CROW DOG, LEONARD

Crow Dog, Leonard: translation

(1942– )

Sicangu (Brûlé)Lakota medicine man, “road man” in theNative American Church, and coauthor withRichard ErdoesofFour Generations of Sioux MedicineMen(1995). Erdoes records Crow Dog’s narration of a “cross-fire ceremony” in the bookLame Deer:Seeker of Visions(1972), which he cowrote withJohn(Fire)Lame Deer. In this, he says ofpeyotethat it opens “three doors . . . makes me recognize myself, makes me understand the people, makes me understand the world.” Crow Dog was a significant spiritual leader at theAmerican IndianMovement’s occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973, where he revived the Ghost Dance, saying that his great-grandfather had been the last ghost dancer to surrender in 1890.