Henry Crow Dog

{{Short description|Rosebud Indian Reservation Sioux medicine man}}

{{cleanup-biography|date=April 2014}}

Henry Crow Dog was a Rosebud Indian Reservation Sioux medicine man who resided on his land, Crow Dog's Paradise.{{cite book|last=Crow Dog|first=Leonard|title=Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men|year=1996|publisher=Herper Perennial|location=New York|isbn=0-06-016861-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/crowdogfourgener0000crow/page/61 61–62]|author2=Richard Erdoes|url=https://archive.org/details/crowdogfourgener0000crow/page/61}}

Henry Crow Dog and Dennis Banks

In 1970, Henry Crow Dog introduced Dennis Banks, a Leech Lake Indian Reservation Ojibwe and leader of the American Indian Movement, about Lakota religion.{{cite book|last=Banks|first=Dennis|title=Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement|url=https://archive.org/details/ojibwawarriorden00bank|url-access=limited|year=2004|publisher=University of Oklahoma|location=Norman|isbn=978-0806136912|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ojibwawarriorden00bank/page/n108 96]–104}}{{cite book|last=Crow Dog|first=Leonard|title=Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men|year=1996|publisher=Harper Perennial|pages=[https://archive.org/details/crowdogfourgener0000crow/page/163 163–164]|location=New York|isbn=0-06-016861-7|author2=Richard Erdoes|url=https://archive.org/details/crowdogfourgener0000crow/page/163}} Dennis Banks sought out Henry Crow Dog for this purpose after he realized that he and most of AIM had very little Native American spiritual knowledge or guidance.{{cite book|last=Crow Dog|first=Leonard|title=Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men|year=1996|publisher=Harper Perennial|pages=[https://archive.org/details/crowdogfourgener0000crow/page/163 163]|location=New York|isbn=0-06-016861-7|author2=Richard Erdoes|url=https://archive.org/details/crowdogfourgener0000crow/page/163}} Crow Dog then taught Banks the Inipi, Yuwipi, and Sun Dance ceremonies.{{cite book|last=Banks|first=Dennis|title=Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement|url=https://archive.org/details/ojibwawarriorden00bank|url-access=limited|year=2004|publisher=University of Oklahoma|location=Norman|isbn=978-0806136912|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ojibwawarriorden00bank/page/n108 96]–104}} Henry Crow Dog's son, Leonard Crow Dog, soon became the spiritual leader of AIM and Crow Dog's Paradise soon became a meeting place for the organization.{{cite book|last=Crow Dog|first=Leonard|title=Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men|year=1996|publisher=Harper Perennial|location=New York|isbn=0-06-016861-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/crowdogfourgener0000crow/page/177 177]|author2=Richard Erdoes|url=https://archive.org/details/crowdogfourgener0000crow/page/177}}

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