Leonard Crow Dog, the husband of Mary Crow Dog, is a spiritual leader and
medicine man for the Lakota Sioux.  He was born in 1942 on the Rosebud
reservation.  Crow Dog was a leader at the occupation of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs office in Washington, D. C., in 1972, and he revived the
Ghost Dance at the siege of Wounded Knee in 1973.  Pictured here, he is
coming out of a sweat lodge after engaging in the traditional purification
ritual which proceeded all sacred ceremonies.  The sweat lodge was made of
sixteen willow sticks, made into a beehive-shaped dome and fastened with
strips of cloth, then covered with blankets of buffalo skin.  Participants
would enter, one at a time, and sit with the medicine man around a pile of
heated rocks.  The heat was extremely intense, but most people emerged,
after prayer and meditation, feeling elated and purified.