Leonard Emanuel Crowdog is the Chief, medicine man, spiritual leader,
spiritual intercessor, and story teller of Lakota tribe in Rosebud Indian
Reservation in South Dakota of Turtle Island, which we call right now the
United States of America.

Leonard is raised by strictly traditional Lakota family.
His father's name was Henry Crowdog who was the great peyote man, eagle dancer and real Lakota man.
Henry refused to send Leonard to go to a boarding school where taught the way of mordern civilazation.
Henry's wife Mary remembered " Leonard was a very special baby, when he was inside of my womb.
So I and Henry wanted raise him the way we were raised by our ancestors." Therefore, Leonard was
raised to be a traditional Lakota man.

When Leonard was young man, he was actively involving with
Native American Church and traditional Lakota ceremonies.
The most of that time, he was with his people, Lakota people. His prayer and medicine were reputed to
help many among Lakota people, and he was to be the great leader of Lakota people. His reputation
was soon spread to the whole Native American people in the United States.
One Native American named Denis Banks who helped urban Native Ameiricans,
and he was seeking something very spiritual for helping his fellow Native Americans
to stand up and live with pride and dignity.
So he heard about the reputation of Crowdog family in
Rosebud Indian Reservation,and visited there for
advice for American Indian Movement (AIM) which was
gift from ancestors' prayer and the manifestation
of the way of life ofindigenous people. Denis met
Henry and Leonard, did purification cermony,
called sweat lodge ceremony.