Editing Crow people (section)

====1800–1824====
[[File:Map with trading posts built for trade with the Crows, 1807-1867.png|thumb|upright 2.0|The trading posts built for trade with the Crows]]

The enmity between the Crow and the Lakota was reasserted from the start of the 19th century. The Crow killed a minimum of thirty Lakota in 1800–1801 according to two Lakota [[winter count]]s.<ref>Mallory, Gerrick (1886): The Dakota Winter Counts. ''Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882–'83'', Washington, pp. 89–127, p. 103.</ref> The next year, the Lakota and their Cheyenne allies killed all the men in a Crow camp with thirty tipis.<ref>Mallory, Gerrick (1893): ''Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888–'89'', Washington, p. 553.</ref>

In the summer of 1805, a Crow camp traded at the Hidatsa villages on Knife River in present North Dakota. Chiefs Red Calf and Spotted Crow allowed the fur trader Francois-Antoine Larocque to join it on its way across the plains to the Yellowstone area. He traveled with it to a point west of the place where [[Billings, Montana]], is today. The camp crossed Little Missouri River and Bighorn River on the way.<ref>Wood, Raymond W. and Thomas D. Thiessen (1987): ''Early Fur trade on the Northern Plains. Canadian Traders among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1738–1818''. Norman and London, pp. 156–220.</ref>

The next year, some Crow discovered a group of whites with horses on the Yellowstone River. By stealth, they captured the mounts before morning. The [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] did not see the Crow.<ref>Ewers, John C. (1988): ''Indian Life on the Upper Missouri''. Norman and London, p. 54.</ref>

The first trading post in Crow country was constructed in 1807, known as both [[Fort Raymond]] and Fort Lisa (1807–ca. 1813). Like the succeeding forts, Fort Benton (ca. 1821–1824) and Fort Cass (1832–1838), it was built near the confluence of the Yellowstone and the Bighorn.<ref>Hoxie, ''Parading Through History''(1995), p. 68.</ref>

The Blood Blackfoot Bad Head's winter count tells about the early and persistent hostility between the Crow and the Blackfoot. In 1813, a force of Blood warriors set off for a raid on the Crow in the Bighorn area. Next year, Crows near Little Bighorn River killed Blackfoot Top Knot.<ref name=Dempsey1965>Dempsey, Hugh A (1965): ''A Blackfoot Winter Count. Occasional Paper No. 1.'' Calgary.</ref>{{rp|6}}

A Crow camp neutralized thirty Cheyenne bent on capturing horses in 1819.<ref>Hyde, George E. (1987): ''Life of George Bent. Written From His Letters''. Norman, p. 23.</ref> The Cheyenne and warriors from a Lakota camp destroyed a whole [[Tongue River Indian Massacre|Crow camp at Tongue River]] the following year.<ref>Hyde, George E. (1987): ''Life of George Bent. Written From His Letters''. Norman, pp. 24–26.</ref> This was likely the most severe attack on a Crow camp in historic time.<ref>Linderman, Frank B. (1962): ''Plenty Coups. Chief of the Crows.'' Lincoln/London, p. 190</ref><ref>Linderman, Frank B. (1974): ''Pretty Shield. Medicine Woman of the Crows.'' Lincoln and London, p. 168.</ref>