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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 ...
In 1880 he accompanied the Crow delegation which met with President Rutherford B. Hayes to speak out against the sale of Crow reservation lands and the construction of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroads, which had routes passing through the Crow Reservation. Pretty Eagle supported the grazing of cattle and growing of hay on Crow ...
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.
When Elsa was two, her father and his family formed the Spear Brothers Cattle Company, which leased over a million acres (4,000 km 2) of Crow Indian Reservation land in Montana along with a number of ranches along the Powder River and Clearmont. "They ran 57,000 head of cattle although the company only owned 36,000 head," she said. The rest ...
The Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council, which represents the Crow Tribe and 10 other tribes in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, demanded a formal apology in a Tuesday letter to Sheehy’s campaign ...
During this time, Yellowtail was able to get white ranchers to return 40,000 acres of land to the tribe, built a Crow Hospital, brought horses and cattle from Canada, and buffalo from Yellowstone National Park. [3] He also demanded a better physician for the Crow Indian Hospital and advocated for the hospital to be staffed by Crow personnel. [6]
The district that now includes the Huntley Project was designated as part of the Crow Indian Reservation under a treaty ratified on May 7, 1868. This preserved the area from occupation by white homesteads and cattle ranches, but by 1880 the virtual extinction of the bison made the traditional Crow economy impossible to sustain.
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.