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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 ...
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.
Crow Creek Reservation in South Dakota, associated with the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Crow Reservation .
The Legislative Branch is composed of 18 legislators (called "senators" as a matter of courtesy), with three elected in staggered terms from each of the six districts of the Crow Indian Reservation. The Crow senators serve four year terms with no term limits. The Judicial Branch is composed of courts established in the Crow Law and Order Code.
The term "Crow Agency" has been historically used since 1868 for the headquarters where the United States directed the federal interaction with the Crow tribe on its reservation. The Crow Tribe's reservations, and the tribe's relations to the United States were defined by treaties between the Crow Tribe and the United States, and by United ...
A small group of Crow scouts had witnessed Lieutenant Colonel [Major General during the American Civil War only] George A. Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the Crow reservation. Many Crow fought in the Nez Perce War in 1877, [4]: 55–56 and again in the Bannock War the next year. [4]: 122 Crow scouts rode along with ...
Crow tradition holds that when the Crows camped on the bottoms of the Lodge Grass Creek or the Little Bighorn River in the spring and summer, when the grass in the valley would be high and when the dew was heavy the bellies and legs of the horses would become wet and glisten as if covered with grease. [6]
That original reservation extended to more than 35 million acres with the first Crow Agency located at Fort Parker near modern Livingston, Montana in 1869. As miners encroached, the reservation was reduced to 8 million acres in 1875 with a location south of modern Absarokee established as Second Crow Agency (1875-1884).