The Crow Indian Reservation is the largest reservation in Montana in square miles with a total of 3,606.54 square miles.
According to the official website of the Crow or Apsaalooke tribe there are around 11,000 registered Crows, with 7,900 of them living on the Crow reservation in Montana. At the time of first contact with white explorers there were perhaps just 4,000 Crows.
Before settlers arrived, Montana was home to several different groups of Native Peoples, including the Crow, Cheyenne, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Salish, Kootenai, and Blackfeet, among others. Each of these tribes had distinct cultures, languages, and ways of life. Estimates suggest that there were at least a dozen major tribal groups in the region, reflecting a rich diversity of Native American cultures in Montana prior to European settlement.
Crow Agency Montana is today the main town and administration centre on the Crow reservation. The first agency was established in 1868 by Captain E M Camp near Livingstone at the western end of the tribe's lands, but his successor (Fellows D Pease) relocated the agency in 1875 to the Stillwater River valley near Absaroka. In 1884 the agency site was moved again, to Crow Agency; this is in the Little Bighorn valley.
10 - 12 Reincarnations.
Crow Indians lived in the states of Wyoming and Montana. Some people in this tribe can still be found in Montana today.
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The major ethnic groups in Montana were the Blackfeet and Crow Indians.
Pink, Lime Green, Blue, Red, and Yellow.
Joseph Medicine Crow has written: 'From the Heart of the Crow Country' -- subject(s): Crow Indians, Folklore, History 'Reminiscences of Joe Medicine Crow, Crow Tribe of Montana'
English, Blackfoot, Crow, Dakota, Salish and Assinboine are languages spoken in Montana.
The Trammel Crow Company had a net income of $16.9 million in 2002
More than 8,000 Crow people live in modern towns and rural communities on the Crow reservation - others live away from reservation land. Many Crow adults work as farmers or ranchers; many work for the tribal government in health care, education, social work, the tribal police and so on; the children and teenagers go to schools such as The Little Bighorn Community College and high schools at Pryor and Lodge Grass; some people work for mining companies on Crow land; others are employed as farm hands, cowboys and waitresses in nearby Hardin. Many tribal traditions and ceremonies survive and the Crow language currently has around 4.500 speakers - it is taught in the tribe's schools so young people are able to learn it along with American English. Sport, particularly basketball, is a favourite of Crow youngsters.
The major ethnic groups in Montana were the Blackfeet and Crow Indians.
The Crow Indian Reservation is the largest reservation in Montana in square miles with a total of 3,606.54 square miles.
The traditional homeland of the Crow tribe (Absaalooke or Absarooke) was a very large area covering southern Montana and northern Wyoming. Today their reservation is within this same area, in south central Montana.
There were just under 11,200 enrolled members of the Crow tribe; today there are 11,357, with around 8,000 living on the Crow reservation.