36 Facts About Crow people

Today, the Crow people have a federally recognized tribe, the Crow Tribe of Montana, with an Indian reservation located in the south-central part of the state.

Crow people Indians are a Plains tribe, who speak the Crow people language, part of the Missouri River Valley branch of Siouan languages.

Since the 19th century, Crow people have been concentrated on their reservation established south of Billings, Montana.

The Crow people were largely pushed westward due to intrusion and influx of the Cheyenne and subsequently the Sioux, known as the Lakota.

The Kiowa and Plains Apache bands later migrated southward, and the Crow people remained dominant in their established area through the 18th and 19th centuries, the era of the fur trade.

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The Crow people were subject to raids and horse thefts by horse-poor tribes, including the powerful Blackfoot Confederacy, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Pawnee, and Ute.

The Crow people remained bitter enemies of both the Sioux and Cheyenne.

Crow people were generally friendly with the northern Plains tribes of the Flathead; Nez Perce, Kutenai, Shoshone, Kiowa and Plains Apache.

In 1918, the Crow people organized a gathering to display their culture, and they invited members of other tribes.

Chiefs Red Calf and Spotted Crow people allowed the fur trader Francois-Antoine Larocque to join it on its way across the plains to the Yellowstone area.

Crow people travelled with it to a point west of the place where Billings, Montana, is today.

In 1829, seven Crow people warriors were neutralized by Blood Blackfoot Indians led by Spotted Bear, who captured a pipe-hatchet during the fight just west of Chinook, Montana.

The chief was placed in a tipi "not far from the Crow people camp, reclining on his bed covered with robes, his face handsomely painted".

Main food source for the Crow people was the American bison which was hunted in a variety of ways.

The Crow people used this place annually in the autumn, a place of multiple cliffs along a ridge that eventually sloped to the creek.

Crow people would take a pair of bison hindquarters and pointing the feet along the lines of stones he would sing his sacred songs and call upon the Great Spirit to make the operation a success.

Traditional Crow people shelter is the tipi or skin lodge made with bison hides stretched over wooden poles.

The Crow people are historically known to construct some of the largest tipis.

The annual Crow people Fair has been described as the largest gathering of tipis in the world.

People of the northern plains like the Crow mostly got their horses from people from the southern plains such as the Comanche and Kiowa who originally got their horses from the Spanish and southwestern Indians such as the various Pueblo people.

The Crow people had large horse herds which were among the largest owned by Plains Indians; in 1914 they had approximately thirty to forty thousand head.

The horse allowed the Crow people to become powerful and skilled mounted warriors, being able to perform daring maneuvers during battle including hanging underneath a galloping horse and shooting arrows by holding onto its mane.

The introduction of horses into Crow people society allowed them to pull heavier loads faster, greatly reducing the number of dogs used as pack animals.

Leggings were either made of animal hide which the Crow people made for themselves or made of wool which were highly valued trade items made specifically for Indians in Europe.

The Crow people are famous for often wearing their hair in a pompadour which was often colored white with paint.

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Crow people men were notable for wearing two hair pipes made from beads on both sides of their hair.

The Crow people wore a variety of headdresses including the famous eagle feather headdress, bison scalp headdress with horns and beaded rim, and split horn headdress.

Traditional clothing worn by the Crow people is still worn today with varying degrees of regularity.

The Crow are an innovative people and are credited with developing their own style of stitch-work for adhering beads.

Regardless of the individual significance of each piece, the Crow People give reverence to the land and sky with the symbolic references found in the various colors and shapes found on their ornamental gear and even clothing.

Some of the clothing that the Crow People decorated with beads included robes, vests, pants, shirts, moccasins and various forms of celebratory and ceremonial gear.

Crow people kinship is a system used to describe and define family members.

Crow people Indian Reservation in south-central Montana is a large reservation covering approximately 2, 300, 000 acres of land area, the fifth-largest Indian reservation in the United States.

The general council held the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of the government and included all enrolled, adult members of the Crow people Tribe, provided that women were 18 years or older and men were 21 or older.

On 19 May 2008, Hartford and Mary Black Eagle of the Crow people Tribe adopted US Senator Barack Obama into the tribe on the date of the first visit of a US presidential candidate to the nation.

In 2009 Dr Joseph Medicine Crow was one of 16 people awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.