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Crow religion, like most native American religions, is extremely complex and includes supernatural beings and powers on many levels - not all of them equate to a "god".
The Crow believed that interaction between people and the supernatural world was possible through dreams or visions (baci'ri in Crow); some of these visions could be tricks played by "trickster" spirits pretending to be something else.
The Sun was considered powerful and often helpful god; the Eagle or Thunderbird, the Seven Stars, the White-Faced Woman, Morning Star, Old Man Coyote, Trickster, The One Above and The Maker of Everything might also be considered similar to the idea of "gods". Their powers, however, were capable of being transmitted via many other spirits, including mythical dwarfs, bear, buffalo, deer and many kinds of bird.
When a warrior had a supernatural vision and a spirit "helper" was revealed to him, this would become far more important to him individually than any of the "gods"; it might be a lizard, or a prairie chicken or a weasel, just as often as a more impressive animal such as a bear.
Equally, The Sun might speak to a warrior in the guise of a strange man, or a talking buffalo - or in any other shape.
Crow people did not therefore have any kind of universal belief structure - each person worshipped freely in his or her own way, in his own time and addressing any of the supernatural powers that he or she chose.
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