![]() ![]() ![]() All during the long years when practicing Indian beliefs was forbidden and could be punished with jail, they went right on having their ceremonies, their sweat baths and sacred dances. ![]() doing two lifetimes in prison after being accused of causing the powder keg explosion Crow Dog full-blood Sioux clan helped Sioux women intimidated by the goons in Oglala, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, where Dennis Banks had set up a camp of opponents to Wilson's rule got very high up in the councils of AIM, to the extent of helping set movement policies had to help raise her siblings since her mother was absent had a premonition that her militancy would bring her a violent death a Micmac Indian who was Mary's close friend Crow Dog's people would dance in a circle holding hands, wrapped in upside-down American flags and "bulletproof" Ghost Dance shirts with paintings of stars, the moon, eagles, and magpies on them Annie Mae Aquash and Leonard Peltier Annie Mae: The Ghost Dance was a religion of love, but the whites misunderstood it, looking upon it as the signal for a great Indian uprising. Short Bull told Crow Dog that, "A new world is coming." Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee revived by Crow Dog (Leonard's great-grandfather) during the siege, after being outlawed for eighty years a link to the past ![]()
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