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A Crow woman holding an infant in a decorated cradleboard, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1908. Crow Fair Rectangular parfleche of the Crow people, decorated with geometric patterns in red, yellow, and blue, and tied with leather thongs at the center.
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A Crow woman holding an infant in a decorated cradleboard, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1908.
A Crow woman holding an infant in a decorated cradleboard, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1908.

Crow

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Also known as: Absaroka, Apsarokee
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History

Crow, North American Indians of Siouan linguistic stock, historically affiliated with the village-dwelling Hidatsa of the upper Missouri River. They occupied the area around the Yellowstone River and its tributaries, particularly the valleys of the Powder, Wind, and Bighorn rivers in what is now Montana. Perhaps lured by the trade in horses, and putatively in response to a dispute over the distribution of meat from a slain buffalo, the Crow broke with the Hidatsa and...

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