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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 .
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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 ...
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[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."
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.
Fort Raymond was built at the mouth of the Bighorn. (Montana Historic Preservation Plan, p. 127.) Also known as Fort Manuel Lisa, Fort Lisa and Big Horn Post #1. Heidenreich says the fort was closed down in 1811. (Heidenreich, Charles A. (1971): Ethno-Documentary of the Crow Indians of Montana, 1824-1862. University of Oregon, Ph.D., 1971.
Richard Throssel was born in Marengo, Washington Territory in 1882. Throssel is best known for his photographs of the Crow Reservation from 1902 to 1911. These photographs of the Crows portray ceremonies, dances, scenes of everyday life, and individual and group portraits, and are valued as historical documents and as works of art. [1]