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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 .
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 ...
The Sun Dance was banned on the Crow reservation in 1887 as part of the 'civilising' effort that the Indian Office embarked upon during this era. [22] The practise was revived in 1941 when William Big Day, after having attended a Shoshone Sun Dance where he felt an intense connection, performed the first Crow Sun Dance in fifty-four years ...
Crow Indians by D.F. Barry. This may be the only photograph of Half Yellow Face, possibly the man wearing the cavalry coat. [1]Half Yellow Face (or Ischu Shi Dish [2] in the Crow language) (1830? to 1879?) was the leader of the six Crow Scouts for George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry during the 1876 campaign against the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne.
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.
[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."
Ledger drawing of a mounted Cheyenne warrior counting coup with lance on a dismounted Crow warrior, 1880s. Among the Plains Indians of North America, counting coup (/ k uː /) is the warrior tradition of winning prestige against an enemy in battle. It is one of the traditional ways of showing bravery in the face of an enemy and involves ...
' Crow-big-foot ') [1] [2] was a chief of the Siksika. His father, Istowun-ehʼpata (Packs a Knife), and mother, Axkahp-say-pi (Attacked Towards Home), were Kainai . He was five years old when Istowun-ehʼpata was killed during a raid on the Crow tribe , and, a year later, his mother remarried to Akay-nehka-simi (Many Names) of the Siksika ...