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East of Yellowstone lies the Absarokas, the Big Horn Basin, and the Big Horns. To the southeast lie the Wind Rivers. These were the original lands of the Crow peoples. This is where I live. Below is a wonderful quote from a Crow Indian chief about 200 years ago. If you stay here, you are [...]
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I know or have heard of many people declaring that their totem animal is one of the strong, impressive mammals–the wolf, the bear, the cougar, the lynx. Why are so many of the small animals ignored as a totem? For instance, Plenty Coups, the last chief of the Crow Indians, had a vision in which [...]
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This January I had a mind stopping moment. I’d picked up a copy of the autobiography of Chief Plenty Coups by Frank Linderman. The Chief of the Crow Indians was over 80 years old when he relayed, by sign and through an interpreter, the story of his life to Linderman, a white man whom he [...]
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I’d been wanting to see a series of pictographs in the desert nearby. So the other day my friend took me out to see them. The hike is about 6 miles round trip. The trip out there is through flat sagebrush country. For a long ways it doesn’t seem like there’s anything of interest. Then [...]
Filed under: Crow Indians, Pryor mountains | Tagged: Native American Culture, petroglyphs, Pictographs, Pryors, Wyoming | 1 Comment »
