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Originally part of the Hidatsa people, they historically lived at the
head of the Mississippi River in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Later the Crow moved to the Dakotas before splitting off from the
Hidatsa and moving west to the Yellowstone region.
The Crow men were proud of their long hair, sometimes so long that it
drug on the ground. Oddly, their women wore their hair short.
Today, the vast majority of the Crow live on their reservation in south
central Montana, which is the fifth largest in the United States. 85%
of them speak their Crow as their first language.
Some interesting history there. Sacagawea was actually taken captive by the Hidatsa and later traded to a frenchmen and became his wife. Went with Lewis and Clark to the pacific. There are so many related tribes in the plains that their movement over the centuries isn't easy to track. And they didn't all get along either.
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