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The tradition of oral history is central to Native American cultures. Crow Indian Episodes of the Old Frontier is a unique collection of stories shared with the author over many years. On once occasion he was taken to a site, which in 1820 saw an over-whelming force of combined Cheyenne and Sioux attack a Crow camp and 800 Crow women and children were taken captive. Stone axe-heads and arrowpoints still littered the ground at the time of the author's visit.
Crow Indian Episodes of the Old Frontier focusses mainly on the turbulent years of the nineteeth century as settlers occupied large areas of Native American land, often creating appalling hardship and also amplifying intertribal conflicts and deep-seated distrust between tribes who were struggling to maintain hunting grounds and water sources. In addition to the tales of intertribal battles, land disputes and the complex relationships with white men, Brian Keefe's book conveys the Crow Nation's affinity and respect for the natural world.
Contents
Introduction. My Good Friend, Joe Medicine Crow.; PART 1; Chapter 1.Long-Hair`s Peculiar Medicine.; Chapter 2.A Crow Prophecy and 40 Sioux Scalps [1845-`46]; Chapter 3.Making Pacts with Old Enemies [1851]; PART 11; Chapter 4.Red-Bear, Spotted-Horse and Big-Otter [1858 -`61]; 17 Shoshoni Lodges Wiped Out [1859], And,; The "Bloodied Robe" Fight [1859].; Chapter 5.Last War-Trip of Spotted-Horse [1861], and Demise of Big-Otter [1861]; Chapter 6.Crow Retaliation from West of the Big Horn.; Crows Capture Sioux "Sacred Bow" [1862]. Two-Leggings Evades the Sioux [1862]; Chapter 7.; Making Peace with the Atsina [1862].; .; Chapter 8.The End Days of Red-Bear [1862-`63]; PART 111; Chapter 9.Big Fight at East Pryor Creek [1863]; Chapter 10.Crows Hold Back, and Hostiles Take the Field [1866-`67]; Chapter 11.Debacle at Cypress Hills [1866]; Chapter 12.Mayhem along the Musselshell [1868-`73]; ; Chapter 13.Thirty Crows Rubbed Out on "Mountain Sheep Butte"; [1869].; PART 1V; Chapter 13."Crow Agency" Established [1869-`75]; Chapter 14.Crows and Nez Perce Fight Sioux and Cheyennes [1873]; Chapter 15.Crow Chiefs go to Washington D.C. [1873]; Chapter 16.Death of Long-Horse [1875]; Chapter 17.Seven Sioux "Loafers" Killed [1876]; ; References and Source Notes.; Index.;