Foreword
The Crow Indians, known in their native tongue as the Apsáalooke, have lived and hunted in the northern plains of Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming since at least the seventeenth century. By the mid-1800s, however, the Crow people were being squeezed between hostile Indian tribes and a growing tide of white settlers. They negotiated a series of treaties with the U.S. Government, concluding with 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which gave them a large reservation in the southwestern portion of modern-day Montana. Among the provisions of the treaty was a right for Crow Indians to “hunt on the unoccupied lands…
