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the name is Apsáalooke and it was mistranslated by early interpreters as "people of [the] crows." It actually means "children of the large-beaked bird,"
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Answer: The first answer is correct, but there is more to it. In the Crow language the word apisaa refers to "a bird that lived long ago" (in other words a mythical bird). Apaa means nose or beak, isaa means large and daaka, laaka or looka means the offspring of animals or birds.
Taken together, the term Apsáalooka indicates that the Crows saw themselves as descendants of some powerful and mythical ancestor-spirit in the form of a bird with a large beak. Because they could not indicate such a meaning in sign-language they simply pointed to whatever bird happened to be around at the time, so Lewis and Clark called them "Kite Indians", others "The People of the Raven" or simply "Crows".
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