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  2. Leonard Crow Dog - Wikipedia

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    Crow Dog recounts family history through four generations of the Crow Dog family. The book details ghost dancers , a group who brought a "new way of praying, of relating to the spirits"; Jerome Crow Dog, Leonard Crow Dog's great-grandfather, who was the first Native American to win a case in the Supreme Court in ex parte Crow Dog ; and Leonard ...

  3. Lakota spiritual leader, activist Leonard Crow Dog dies - AOL

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    Chief Leonard Crow Dog, a renowned spiritual leader and Native American rights activist who fought for sovereignty, language preservation and religious freedom, has died at age 78. Crow Dog ...

  4. Crow Dog - Wikipedia

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    He was the nephew of former principal chief Conquering Bear, who was killed in 1854 in an incident which would be known as the Grattan massacre.He was the great-grandfather of Leonard Crow Dog (1942–2021), a practitioner of traditional herbal medicine, a leader of Sun Dance ceremonies, and preserver of Lakota traditions.

  5. Wounded Knee Occupation - Wikipedia

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    AIM's security stopped and disarmed them, finding handguns, handcuffs, and badges. Security took them to the museum and Leonard Crow Dog gave them food and an approximately 30-minute lecture on Indian history and why they were occupying Wounded Knee, afterwards escorting them to the federal lines. [29] [full citation needed]

  6. Anna Mae Aquash - Wikipedia

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    Annie Mae Aquash (Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975 [1] [2]) was a First Nations activist and Mi'kmaq tribal member from Nova Scotia, Canada. . Aquash moved to Boston in the 1960s and joined other First Nations and Indigenous Americans focused on education, resistance, and police brutality against urban Indigenous peo

  7. Ex parte Crow Dog - Wikipedia

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    Ex parte Crow Dog, 109 U.S. 556 (1883), is a landmark [1] [2] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that followed the death of one member of a Native American tribe at the hands of another on reservation land.

  8. Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee - Wikipedia

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    The film is based on Mary Crow Dog's autobiography Lakota Woman, wherein she accounts her troubled youth, involvement with the American Indian Movement, and relationship with Lakota medicine man and activist Leonard Crow Dog. The film is notable for being the first American film to feature an indigenous Native American actress in the starring role.

  9. Lakota Woman - Wikipedia

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    Lakota Woman is a memoir by Mary Brave Bird, a Sicangu Lakota who was formerly known as Mary Crow Dog. Reared on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, she describes her childhood and young adulthood, which included many historical events associated with the American Indian Movement.