Editing Crow people (section)

====1875–1899====
[[File:Crooks army before battle of the Rosebud.jpg|thumb|Crooks army before battle of the Rosebud. The Crow and Shoshone scouts and the Army are crossing Goose River on the way to the Rosebud in 1876. The equestrian woman may be either the Crow [[Two-spirit|berdache]] Finds-them-and-kills-them or the Crow amazon The-other-magpie.<ref name=Lin1974/>{{rp|228}}]]
[[File:Eight Crow prisoners under guard at Crow agency, Montana, 1887 - NARA - 531126.jpg|thumb|"Eight Crow prisoners under guard at Crow agency, Montana, 1887"]]

Two years later, in early July 1875,<ref name=Webb1939>Webb, George W. (1939): ''Chronological List of Engagements Between The Regular Army of the United States And Various Tribes of Hostile Indians Which Occurred During The Years 1790 To 1898, Inclusive''. St. Joseph.</ref>{{rp|75}} Crow chief Long Horse was killed in a suicidal attack on some Sioux,<ref name=Lin1962>Linderman, Frank B. (1962): ''Plenty Coups. Chief of the Crows''. Lincoln/London.</ref>{{rp|277–284}} who previously had killed three soldiers from Camp Lewis on the upper Judith River (near Lewistown).<ref name=Grinnell1985>Grinnell, George Bird (1985): ''The Passing of the Great West. Selected Papers of George Bird Grinnell''. New York.</ref>{{rp|114}} [[George Bird Grinnell]] was a member of the exploring party in the [[Yellowstone National Park]] that year, and he saw the bringing in of the dead chief. A mule carried the body, which was wrapped in a green blanket. The chief was placed in a tipi "not far from the Crow camp, reclining on his bed covered with robes, his face handsomely painted".<ref name=Grinnell1985/>{{rp|116}} Crow woman Pretty Shield remembered the sadness in camp. "We fasted, nearly starved in our sorrow for the loss of Long-Horse."<ref name=Lin1974>Linderman, Frank B. (1974): ''Pretty Shield. Medicine Woman of the Crows''. Lincoln and London.</ref>{{rp|38}}

Exposed to Sioux attacks, the Crows sided with the U.S. during the [[Great Sioux War of 1876|Great Sioux War]] in 1876–1877.<ref name=White1978/>{{rp|342}} On 10 April 1876, 23 Crow enlisted as [[Crow scouts|Army scouts]].<ref name=Bradley1896>Bradley, James H.: Journal of James H. Bradley. The Sioux Campaign of 1876 under the Command of General John Gibbon. ''Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana''. Pp. 140–227.</ref>{{rp|163}} They enlisted against a traditional Indian enemy, "... who were now in the old Crow country, menacing and often raiding the Crows in their reservation camps."<ref name=MedCrow1939>Medicine Crow, joseph (1939): ''The Effects of European Culture Contacts upon the Economic, Social, and Religious Life of the Crow Indians''. A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California.</ref>{{rp|X}} [[Charles Varnum]], leader of Custer's scouts, understood how valuable the enrolment of scouts from the local Indian tribe was. "These Crows were in their own country and knew it thoroughly."<ref name=Varnum1987>Varnum, Charles A. (1982): ''Custer's Chief of Scouts. The Reminiscences of Charles A. Varnum. Including his Testimony at the Reno Court of Inquiry''. Lincoln.</ref>{{rp|60}}

Notable Crows like Medicine Crow<ref name=Porter1986>Porter, Joseph C. (1986): ''Paper Medicine Man. John Gregory Bourke and His American West''. Norman and London.</ref>{{rp|48}} and Plenty Coups participated in the Rosebud Battle along with more than 160 other Crows.<ref name=MedCrow1992/>{{rp|47}}<ref name=Lin1962/>{{rp|154–172}}<ref name=Dunlay1982/>{{rp|116}}

The Battle of the Little Bighorn stood on the Crow reservation.<ref name=Dunlay1982/>{{rp|113}} As most battles between the US and the Sioux in the 1860s and 1870s, "It was a clash of two expanding empires, with the most dramatic battles occurring on lands only recently taken by the Sioux from other tribes."<ref name=Calloway1982/>{{rp|42}}<ref name=Ewers1975/>{{rp|408}}<ref name=White1978/>{{rp|342}} When the Crow camp with Pretty Shield learned about the defeat of George A. Custer, it cried for the assumed dead Crow scouts "… and for Son-of-the-morning-star [Custer] and his blue soldiers …".<ref name=Lin1974/>{{rp|243}}

On 8 January 1877, three Crow participated in the last battle of the Great Sioux War in the Wolf Mountains.<ref name=Pearson2001>Pearson, Jeffrey V.: Nelson A. Miles, Crazy Horse, and the Battle of Wolf Mountains. ''Montana, the Magazine of Western History''. Vol. 51, No. 4 (Winter 2001), pp. 52–67.</ref>{{rp|60}}

In the spring of 1878, 700 Crow tipis were pitched at the confluence of Bighorn River and Yellowstone River. Together with Colonel [[Nelson A. Miles]], an Army leader in the Great Sioux War, the large camp celebrated the victory over the Sioux.<ref name=Hox1995>Hoxie, ''Parading Through History'' (1995), p. 109.</ref><ref name=Miles1897>Miles, Nelson A. (1897): ''Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles''. Chicago and New York.</ref>{{rp|283–285}}