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35-734: Crow Reservation may refer to: Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, associated with the Crow Nation Crow Creek Reservation in South Dakota, associated with the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Crow Reservation . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

70-652: A $ 225 coal payment every four months. Half of the reservation's adult population is unemployed. In 2013, the tribe and Cloud Peak Energy agreed to open the Big Metal mine, which would have brought the company $ 10 million in revenue over the first five years. President Barack Obama blocked the mine and then imposed a moratorium on any new coal leasing on public lands. In March 2017, the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation sued Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to stop his attempt to lift

105-530: A bird, and I went back to the village, needing no man to tell me the meaning of my dream. I took a sweat-bath and rested in my father's lodge. I knew myself now." Later, when he was 11 years old, Plenty Coups (along with other young men of the Crow Nation) was challenged to have a vision which might guide his people's future. After fasting and spending several days in the Crazy Mountains , he had

140-456: A chief. Many times he would cover himself with a gray wolf hide, and sneak alone into an enemy camp and scout about. He would return to his fellow warriors and devise a plan of attack. They would execute the attack, and Plenty Coups would seek to touch an enemy with his coup stick or take a weapon or horse, then return without being killed or captured. This was considered a greater act of bravery than actually killing an enemy. He soon gained

175-529: A reputation for being fearless and cunning, like the wolf. He became a member of the elite warriors of his tribe. They would do everything backwards , in a fashion that was bizarre to onlookers, which helped create fear in hearts of their enemies because of their reputation. As a young man, Plenty Coups also gained a reputation for being a wise and eloquent speaker. He was often looked to for guidance and advice, and spoke out often during tribal councils regarding their neighboring enemies, and their interaction with

210-499: A vision in which he saw many buffalo coming out of a hole. They spread over the plains, then disappeared. Surreal buffalo with weird tails, different colors (even spots), and odd bellows then came out of the hole and covered the plains. He saw himself as an old man, living near a cold spring in the foothills of the Arrowhead Mountains . He also saw a forest; strong winds blew down the trees in the forest until only one tree

245-637: 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. Plenty Coups had also experienced a vision when he was very young that non-Native American people would ultimately take control of his homeland ( Montana ), so he always felt that cooperation would benefit his people much more than opposition. He very much wanted

280-584: Is located near the town of Pryor. It has a small museum dedicated to Chief Plenty Coups and the Crow Tribe. The chief's two-floor lodge house and grocery store is preserved. Since 1904, the Crow have organized the big Crow Fair , forming the "Teepee Capital of the World". By tradition, it is held the third week in August. The PBS TV series Reading Rainbow partially filmed its tenth episode, "The Gift of

315-430: Is only poverty and misery in idleness and dreams – but in work there is self respect and independence." Chief Plenty Coups became a chief at the age of twenty-nine; he is the last chief who was elected a chief by other chiefs. Plenty Coups was born into the Crow ("Apsáalooke") tribe in about 1848 at the-cliffs-that-have-no-name (possibly near Billings, Montana ), to his father Medicine-Bird and his mother Otter-woman. He

350-406: The 1851 Fort Laramie treaty . Pressure from Europeans north of Yellowstone River and a Lakota (Sioux) invasion into Crow treaty guaranteed land from the east (the lead-up to Red Cloud's War ) made the 1860s a trying time for the Crow. " Oglalas under Crazy Horse and Red Cloud and Hunkpapas and Minneconjous under Sitting Bull continued to follow the dwindling buffalo herds west from

385-549: The Arab Oil Embargo in the 1970s. The Crow Tribe owns 1.4 billion tons of coal, enough to supply the United States for a year. The reservation's Absaloka coal mine provides half of the tribe's nonfederal budget. The single-pit mine opened in 1974 and employs 170 people. The decline of coal mining in the United States has forced the tribe to lay off 1,000 of its 1,300 employees. Every tribal citizen receives

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420-672: The Powder River , while gold seekers travelled north into the [Crow] region along the Bozeman [Trail] ." Steamboats on the Missouri River brought additional prospectors into the Yellowstone area. The situation called for a new Crow treaty. On May 7, 1868, the Crow sold around 30 million acres of their 1851 territory and agreed to live in a reservation. The border to the south was the 45th degree of north latitude, while

455-683: The Standing Rock Reservation depending on whether water areas are counted). Reservation headquarters are in Crow Agency, Montana . The reservation is located in old Crow country. In August 1805, fur trader Francois-Antoine Larocque camped at the Little Bighorn River and traveled through the area with a Crow group. The contemporary reservation lies at the center of the Crow Indian territory described in

490-756: The Tongue River massacre on a big Crow camp at Tongue River in 1820. The resulting book of Plenty Coup's life was published as American: The Life Story of a Great Indian: Plenty-coups, Chief of the Crows (New York: John Day, 1930). In 1962, it was reprinted as simply Plenty-Coups: Chief of the Crows (Bison Books) and is still in print under that title. Inspired by a visit to George Washington 's Mount Vernon plantation in Virginia in 1928, four years before his death Chief Plenty Coups donated 195 acres (0.79 km ) of his personal land to Big Horn County to create

525-434: The 107th degree of longitude west was the eastern border. Both borderlines met the Yellowstone at a point. The connection of these two points followed the course of the river and made up the last border of the 1868 reservation. It comprised about eight million acres. Major F. D. Pease was the first civil agent at the Crow reservation, from 1870 to 1874. Land cessions to the United States approved in 1882, 1892 and 1906 cut

560-441: The Crow to survive as a people and their customs and spiritual beliefs to carry on. His efforts on their behalf ensured that this happened, and he led his people peacefully into the 20th century. One of his famous quotes is: "Education is your greatest weapon. With education you are the white man's equal, without education you are his victim and so shall remain all of your lives. Study, learn, help one another always. Remember there

595-529: The Sacred Dog", on the reservation on June 17, 1983. The title was based on a book by Paul Goble and was narrated by actor Michael Ansara . 45°23′08″N 107°44′48″W  /  45.38556°N 107.74667°W  / 45.38556; -107.74667 Plenty Coups Plenty Coups ( Crow : Alaxchíia Ahú , "many achievements"; c. 1848 – 1932) was the principal chief of the Crow Tribe and

630-627: The chickadee, and he would carry a pair of chickadee legs in a medicine bag he used for protection and spiritual power. This vision would guide his actions (and that of the Crow People) for the remainder of his life. Plenty Coups started learning early in life the ways of an Indian warrior. Constant attacks by neighboring tribes provided many opportunities to prove his valor, and he quickly started earning coups. He spent his youth fighting and learning alongside many other young warriors, including Medicine Crow (Sacred Raven), who would also become

665-620: The death of his beloved older brother when he was nine years old, he had a vision in which one of the Little People of the Pryor Mountains told him to develop his senses and wits, and that if he used them well, he would become a chief. As he later said: I had a will and I would use it, make it work for me, as the Dwarf-chief had advised. I became very happy, lying there looking up into the sky. My heart began to sing like

700-409: The encroaching white population and their government. Plenty Coups was named a chief of the Crow at age 28. As a young man and chief, he was a fierce and well-respected warrior. He was thought to have between 50 and 100 feathers on his coup stick, each one representing an act of valor. Many times over, he had fulfilled the four requirements for becoming a chief. Plenty Coups became a chief in 1876,

735-479: The first Indian to do so. The reservation got its present shape after moderate land cuts in 1937 and in connection with the construction of the Bighorn Canyon Dam in the 1960s. During the 1960s, Pauline Small became the first woman Crow reservation tribal official. The value of the enormous amount of coal under the surface in the old tribal territory became clear to the reservation Crows after

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770-469: The land for gold prospecting and other uses. Many other Native Americans tribes were relocated to reservations on entirely different land than where they had lived their lives. Plenty Coups told about his trip to Washington in 1880 to William Wildschut. The travel east was by Fast Wagon or train. It was described as "a big black horse with his belly nearly touching the ground".               Chief Plenty Coups

805-412: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crow_Reservation&oldid=791758107 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Crow Indian Reservation The reservation, the largest of

840-617: The moratorium. The biggest attraction in the reservation is the Little Bighorn National Monument . On June 25, 1876, combined forces from the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne , and Arapaho tribes defeated the Seventh Cavalry Regiment commanded by George Armstrong Custer . Local Crow scouts defending their reservation guided Custer. Chief Plenty Coups (Alek-Chea-Ahoosh) State Park and Home

875-485: The reservation boundary runs along the ridgeline separating Pryor Creek and the Yellowstone River. The city of Billings is approximately 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the reservation boundary. It has a land area of 3,593.56 square miles (9,307.3 km ) and a total area of 3,606.54 square miles (9,340.9 km ), making it either the fifth or sixth-largest reservation in the country (alternating with

910-540: The same year as the Battle of the Little Bighorn . Six Crow warriors worked as scouts for General Custer at this time, and were allied with the white man in order to fight their own primary enemies during this period: the Lakota, Sioux and Cheyenne. According to the interpretation of Plenty Coups' vision, cooperating with the white man was the only way to ensure the Crow's future survival in a white man's world. He

945-666: The seven Indian reservations in Montana , is located in south-central Montana , bordered by Wyoming to the south and the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation to the east. The reservation includes the northern end of the Bighorn Mountains , Wolf Mountains , and Pryor Mountains . The Bighorn River flows north from the Montana-Wyoming state line, joining the Little Bighorn just east of Hardin . Part of

980-617: The western and northernmost part of the 1868 reservation. Crow chief Plenty Coups , Robert Yellowtail and others stopped efforts to open the reservation in 1917. In a hotel room in Washington, D.C., they opened a bundle over the incense of buffalo chips from animals in the National Zoo and prayed for help. "The next day the attempted appropriation of their land was soundly defeated." Yellowtail made headlines when he became superintendent of his own tribe's reservation in 1934,

1015-596: Was 80 years old. Linderman would visit Plenty Coups at his home on the Crow Reservation and ask the chief to recount parts of his life story. Two Crow Indians, Coyote-runs and Braided-scalp-lock (aka Frank Shively), assisted Plenty Coups in recounting his life to Linderman. He told about vision quests, fights with the Cheyennes and the Lakotas and about the history of the Crows. He told what little he knew about

1050-712: Was changed: his grandfather predicted that he would become chief of the Crow Tribe, live a very long life, and accomplish many great deeds, thus christening him Alaxchiiaahush , meaning "many achievements". Plenty Coups is the English translation of his name, coming from the word coup , or act of bravery. Over the course of his life, he would live up to his name and his grandfather's prediction. Early in his life, Plenty Coups started having prophetic dreams and visions. Many seemed so far-fetched that no one believed them, but when they started coming true, his fellow tribe members began to revere him and listened to him carefully. After

1085-415: Was given the birth name Chíilaphuchissaaleesh, or "Buffalo Bull Facing The Wind". During the first decades of Plenty Coups' life, he led the life of a Crow warrior, which involved warring with other major tribes such as the Sioux and Cheyenne over territory, hunting rights, prestige, and the other parts of the traditional warrior way of life. In accordance with tradition, as a young man his birth name

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1120-478: Was left standing. In it was the home of the chickadee . His vision was interpreted by tribal elders to mean that the white man would take over the Native American lands and their way of life, like the wind that blew down the trees in the forest—all except one, which represented the Crow people. The Crow tribe would be spared if they could learn how to work with the white man. His spirit guide then became

1155-520: Was selected as the sole representative of Native Americans for the dedication of the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier and gave a short speech in his native tongue in honor of the soldier and the occasion. He placed his war-bonnet and coup stick upon the tomb, and they are preserved in a display case there. When he died in 1932 at age 84, he was considered by his people to be the last of the great chiefs. The vision he had had when he

1190-438: Was selected to represent the Crow in Washington, D.C., where he fought successfully against U.S. senators' plans to abolish the Crow nation and take away their lands. He made many trips to Washington over ten years to protect his people. He was fairly successful in doing so, and managed to keep the Crows' original land (although it amounted to only 80% of what they were originally allotted), despite many foreigners' desire to take

1225-561: Was younger had come true-he was married (his wife was Strikes-the-iron), but had no children of his own. Bison were almost wholly replaced by cattle. White society and government dominated and had completely changed America. Through diplomacy, foresight and strong leadership, Plenty Coups was able to preserve the Crow Nation land, people and culture much better than most other Native American tribes. Author Frank Bird Linderman wrote an autobiography with Chief Plenty Coups when Plenty Coups

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