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Crow Indians, c. 1878–1883 The Crow, whose autonym is Apsáalooke ([ə̀ˈpsáːɾòːɡè]), are Native Americans living primarily in southern Montana. 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.
The Crow Indian Reservation is the homeland of the Crow Tribe. Established 1868, [3] [4] the reservation is located in parts of Big Horn, Yellowstone, and Treasure counties in southern Montana in the United States. The Crow Tribe has an enrolled membership of approximately 11,000, of whom 7,900 reside in the reservation. 20% speak Crow as their ...
"Chief Plenty Coups and seven Crow prisoners under guard at Crow agency. Montana, 1887" Meanwhile, the United States Army was also taking action, Brigadier General Thomas H. Ruger was placed in command of the soldiers at Fort Custer and Fort McKinney, Wyoming and instructed to launch an expedition into the Big Horn and occupy the Cheyenne reservation, in order to prevent any of the natives ...
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.
Crow Scouts worked with the United States Army in several conflicts, the first in 1876 during the Great Sioux War.Because the Crow Nation was at that time at peace with the United States, [2]: xi the army was able to enlist Crow warriors to help them in their encroachment against the Native Americans with whom they were at war.
This lore was widely believed, as Beckwourth had adopted Native American dress and was taken by some people as an Indian. Beckwourth as Indian warrior, 1856. Later that year, Beckwourth claimed to have been captured by Crow while trapping in the border county between the territories of Crow, Cheyenne, and Blackfoot. According to his account, he ...
[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."
Bíawacheeitchish, in English Woman Chief (c. 1806 – 1854), [1] was a bacheeítche (chief) and warrior of the Crow people.Interested in traditionally male pursuits from an early age, she became one of the Crows' most significant leaders, joining the Council of Chiefs as the third ranking member.