kept trying him for more and more small charges to keep him in jail sent to prison on Wounded Knee-related charges since the occupation of Wounded Knee was illegal, and Crow Dog was the leader of it, he was deemed responsible for everything It was a challenge for Mary to be accepted by Crow Dog's full-blood family Crow Dog's trial and imprisonment -went on trial in Pierre, South Dakota it was a very difficult task to be married to a holy man Leonard was very selfless and pitied people known for his generosity they had 10x more guests than the usual Sioux household Crow Dog as Mary's husband -he was a medicine man as well as a civil rights leader Leonard Crow Dog performed rituals and prayers, took a major part in all negotiations, operated upon gunshot wounds, healed the sick, and even took over as chief engineer. he sat down between the rows of soldiers on one side, and the Indians on the other, all ready and eager to start shooting Crow Dog at Wounded Knee -Leonard's great-grandfather surrendered his band to avoid having his people killed 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

Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog