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The Crow are a Siouan-speaking people of the northern Great Plains whose descendants are a federally recognized nation with a reservation in south-central Montana. Originally sedentary farmers along the Missouri River, the Crow became nomadic hunters with their acquisition of the horse in the early 1730s. This changed during the latter half of the nineteenth century with the intrusion of non-Indian settlers, the near extinction of the buffalo, and confinement to a reservation, transitioning once more into a sedentary pattern based on farming and ranching, with participation in the wider cash economy. The Crow retain thirteen matrilineal clans, organized into six phratries, and into three regional groups or bands composed of all the clans. Egalitarian and non-stratified, the Crow recognized “chiefs” who performed coups—exceptional feats of war. Asserting their sovereignty after the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the Crow adopted their own constitution in 1948, establishing a council of all adult tribe members, with four elected officers and various governing committees; tribal police and courts are under the jurisdiction of the council.

The Beaver dance and adoption ceremony of the Crow Indians

Five Indian tribes of the upper Missouri

Culture Summary

Re-telling one's own

Parading through history

Searching for structure

The Crow Indians

The Material culture of the Crow Indians

The Sun dance of the Crow Indians

Societies of the Crow, Hidatsa and Mandan Indians

The religion of the Crow Indians

Crow Indian art

Minor ceremonies of the Crow Indians

My Crow interpreter

Water as a disciplinary agent among the Crow and Blackfoot

The Indian journals 1859-62

The Crows of the western plains

'You're considered a warrior then'

Individual motivation in the diffusion of the Wind River Shoshone Sundance to the Crow Indians

Author	Title	Publication Date
Big Man, Max	The Beaver dance and adoption ceremony of the Crow Indians	1979
Denig, Edwin Thompson	Five Indian tribes of the upper Missouri	1961
Frey, Rodney	Culture Summary	2014
Frey, Rodney	Re-telling one's own	1983
Hoxie, Frederick E.	Parading through history	1995
Hoxie, Frederick E.	Searching for structure	1991
Lowie, Robert Harry	The Crow Indians	1935
Lowie, Robert Harry	The Material culture of the Crow Indians	1922
Lowie, Robert Harry	The Sun dance of the Crow Indians	1921
Lowie, Robert Harry	Societies of the Crow, Hidatsa and Mandan Indians	1913
Lowie, Robert Harry	The religion of the Crow Indians	1922
Lowie, Robert Harry	Crow Indian art	1922
Lowie, Robert Harry	Minor ceremonies of the Crow Indians	1924
Lowie, Robert Harry	My Crow interpreter	1964
McAllester, David P. (David Park)	Water as a disciplinary agent among the Crow and Blackfoot	1941
Morgan, Lewis Henry	The Indian journals 1859-62	1959
Murdock, George Peter	The Crows of the western plains	1934
Väyrynen, Marjo	'You're considered a warrior then'	2011
Voget, Fred W.	Individual motivation in the diffusion of the Wind River Shoshone Sundance to the Crow Indians	1948
Voget, Fred W.	Crow	2001
Voget, Fred W.	Sacred numerology and management of the universe by the Crow Indians	1995
Voget, Fred W.	Adaptation and cultural persistence among the Crow Indians of Montana	1980
Voget, Fred W.	The Crow Indian give-away	1987
Wildschut, William	Crow Indian beadwork	1959
Wildschut, William	Crow Indian medicine bundles	1960

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