Amos Owen; American Indian Religious Leader

Amos Owen, 73, a Dakota Sioux leader who helped to renew traditional Native American Indian religious practices. Severely wounded while serving with the U.S. Army in the Philippines in World War II, Owen returned to study traditional Indian beliefs from Sioux medicine men in South Dakota. Many people considered him a medicine man or priest, but he preferred the term “pipe carrier,” meaning the one in charge of the peace pipe used in Indian rituals. On June 4 on Prairie Island Indian Reservation near Red Wing, Minn.