Following the lead of others who took pictures of the WBCP Ceremony and Sun Dance in 1892, 1910 and 1923, Frank Fools Crow requested that pictures be taken of the WBCP Revival Ceremony and Sun Dances in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. He wanted them so that future generations could see the way that the ceremonies should be performed.

My father, Calvin Dupree, Keeper of the C'anupa Wakan and five season Sun Dancer passed these pictures and the Sacred Pipe on to me before his death. The C'anupa Wakan, the oldest pipe, used for ceremony that was passed to him by Frank Fools Crow during the Revival Ceremonies and Sun Dance at Pine Ridge in 1971.

In 2004, before he passed, my uncle, Phil Lane Sr. Lakota Heyoka, saw the way the ceremonies had been changed, so he came to me and told me that now was the time for me to come forward and make the information I had public.---LBW
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