{"product_id":"crow-dog-four-generations-of-sioux-medicine-men-9780060926823","title":"Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFour Generations of Lakota Medicine Men\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I am Crow Dog. I am the fourth of that name. Crow Dogs have played a big part in the history of our tribe and in the history of all the Indian nations of the Great Plains during the last two hundred years. We are still making history.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThus opens the extraordinary and epic account of a Native American clan. Here the authors, Leonard Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes (co-author of \u003cem\u003eLakota Woman\u003c\/em\u003e) tell a story that spans four generations and sweeps across two centuries of reckless deeds and heroic lives, and of degradation and survival.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA Chronicle of Lakota History and Resistance\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. His 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, \u003cem\u003eCrow Dog\u003c\/em\u003e's principal narrator, Leonard Crow Dog, took up the family's challenge through his involvement with the American Indian Movement (AIM).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSpiritual Practices and Sacred Ceremonies\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeonard C. Dog was born in 1942 on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, where he still lives. Co-authored with Richard Erdoes, this memoir provides an authentic voice from within the Lakota community, documenting both personal family history and broader Native American resistance movements across two centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680515428626,"sku":"9780060926823","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_59b95bcd-2152-4f9a-8d3c-02bf48c65422.jpg?v=1734920451","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/crow-dog-four-generations-of-sioux-medicine-men-9780060926823","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}