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Today, the Crow people have a federally recognized tribe, the Crow Tribe of Montana, [1] with an Indian reservation, the Crow Indian Reservation, located in the south-central part of the state. [1] Crow Indians are a Plains tribe, who speak the Crow language, part of the Missouri River Valley branch of Siouan languages. Of the 14,000 enrolled ...
The Crow Tribe has an enrolled membership of approximately 11,000, of whom 7,900 reside in the reservation. 20% speak Crow as their first language. [ 5 ] The reservation, the largest of the seven Indian reservations in Montana , is located in south-central Montana , bordered by Wyoming to the south and the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation ...
[5] [31] The Crow Nation (guided by this vision) did survive, [22] and today the Crow Indian Reservation is only a short distance from the Pryor Mountains and Medicine Rocks. As one historian of religious belief has said, "[I]ndeed, the Crow people survived the deepest crisis of the nineteenth century in part because of Plenty-coup's vision."
Joseph Medicine Crow (October 27, 1913 – April 3, 2016) was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Tribe.His writings on Native American history and reservation culture are considered seminal works, but he is best known for his writings and lectures concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn of 1876.
Plenty Coups (Crow: Alaxchíia Ahú, [1] "many achievements"; c. 1848 – 1932) was the principal chief of the Crow Tribe and a visionary leader.. He allied the Crow with the whites when the war for the West was being fought because the Sioux and Cheyenne (who opposed white settlement of the area) were the traditional enemies of the Crow.
Meanwhile, the Crow camp organized a big war party to strike first and drive the enemies out of the Crow country. The two Indian armies crossed each other unnoticed during the night. The Crows lost the track and never found the camps on the Powder River. [5]: pp. 24-25 The Cheyenne and Lakota attacked the unprotected Crow camp at noon.
But the Crow Fair, which the tribe has put on for more than 100 years, is a time for Crow Tribe members to “show the best versions of themselves,” he said.
The Crow War, [1] also known as the Crow Rebellion, [2] or the Crow Uprising, [3] was the only armed conflict between the United States and the Crow tribe of Montana, and the last Indian War fought in the state.