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Virginia Indians, Commonwealth of Virginia; Virginia Council on Indians; Brigid Schulte, "With Trip to England, Va. Tribes Seek a Place in U.S. History", Washington Post, 13 Jul 2006; Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2007 Archived 2008-08-28 at the Wayback Machine, Library of Congress
History of Virginia The proposed and accepted dates for the beginning of native habitation in Virginia vary widely; traditionally the assumed date was somewhere between 12,000–10,000 B.C. The recent archaeological excavations at Cactus Hill, however, have challenged those dates with hard evidence of far earlier habitation within the state.
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 .
In 1920, he helped to draft the "Crow Allotment Act" that protected Crow lands, and was instrumental in obtaining voting rights for Native Americans in 1924. [citation needed] From 1934 until 1945, Yellowtail was the Superintendent of the Crow Indian Reservation, the first superintendent to administer his own tribe. [5]
[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."
A chief of the Crow Indian Nation Chief Pretty Eagle (c. 1846–1903) was a war chief, warrior, and diplomat of the Crow Nation . He was born in about 1846 near present-day Crow Agency in Montana to the Mountain Crow division of the Crow Indians, one of three major divisions that made up the nation.
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Thomas Yellowtail was born just south of Lodge Grass, Montana, on the Crow Indian reservation. [2] His father's name was Hawk with the Yellow Tail Feathers. It was the practice at the time for the U.S. Government to assign surnames to the Indians as a means of assimilating them into the white culture and to ease record keeping.