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In Wyola, a little school is making big plans

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Garious

WYOLA — It’s 9 a.m., the start of the day in Dorcella Plain Bull’s fourth-grade classroom at Wyola School. A drumbeat is playing over the PA and all of Plain Bull’s students are standing up and singing the Wyola district song, singing in the Apsaalooke language of the Crow Indians. They sing it every morning before reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Each of the six districts of the Crow Nation has its own song. The Wyola district song was written in the early 1960s by the father of Levi Yellowmule, the school’s athletic director. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Crow Nation, Linda Pease, Wyola

At Crow hand-game tourney, the spectacle is the thing

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Other Meds

I was told by several people that the Crow hand game was difficult to explain, but that once I’d watched a few rounds it would start to make sense. I suppose it did, sort of in the way that the one cricket game I ever watched had begun to make some sense by the time it ended. The big difference is that at a cricket game, cricket is the main attraction. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Diversions, Big Horn district, Black Lodge district, Crow Nation, Ed Little Light, hand game, Louis Walks Over Ice

The chief and the chickadee

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Coups

Chief Plenty Coups, last of the great Crow chiefs, in battle wore the legs and feet of the chickadee braided in the long black hair behind his ear. After listening to an early vision received by this future chief, the Crow Elders told Plenty Coups, “The chickadee is your medicine. We must be wise like the chickadee.” And he honored this tiny bird throughout his life. Power from and communication between species is something most people don’t believe in now—or even try to understand. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Montana, Arrow Creek, Crow Nation, Plenty Coups

Opinion: Everything has water flowing through it

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Lake

Editor’s Note: This essay is part of “Sacred Water,” Environmental Health News’ ongoing investigation into Native American struggles—and successes—to protect culturally significant water sources on and off the reservation. We grew up learning a tradition of respect for water, hearing our Elders praying with water. Water is a part of every second of our lives, everything has water flowing through it, everything has life. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Opinion, Crow Nation, Environmental Health News, Guardians of the Living Water

In Crow Country, a new water system brings life

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Bodies

Editor’s Note: This story is part of “Sacred Water,” Environmental Health New’s ongoing investigation into Native American struggles—and successes—to protect culturally significant water sources on and off the reservation. Read Part 1: Tainted water imperils health, traditions for Montana tribe

CROW RESERVATION— Alisara Knaub saw firsthand how contaminated water can upend your life. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Congressional Research Service, Crow Nation, Environmental Health News, Little Big Horn College, Robert Old Horn, Ryan Zinke

For Crow Nation, many other tribes, clean water is scarce

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Strife

Editor’s Note: This story is part of “Sacred Water,” an ongoing investigation by Environmental Health News into Native American struggles—and successes—to protect culturally significant water sources on and off the reservation. CROW RESERVATION—Cutting south through the western border of the Crow Nation’s vast reservation, the history is as dense as the land is sparse. There are no billboards, stoplights, gas stations or cell service. “But there’s a lot out there,” says Emery Three Irons, a Crow tribal member, driving through an early-spring snow. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Battle of Pryor Creek, Chief Plenty Coups, Crow Nation, Emery Three Irons, John Doyle, Jon Tester