{"id":11704,"date":"2016-04-20T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=11704"},"modified":"2016-04-20T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:54:12","slug":"joe-medicine-crow-featured-in-economist-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/04\/joe-medicine-crow-featured-in-economist-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Medicine Crow featured in Economist obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Joe\"<\/a>

A young Joe Medicine Crow.<\/p><\/div>\n

In my estimation, there are few posthumous honors quite like being the subject of an obituary in The Economist<\/a>, a weekly news magazine based in London but widely available in this country.<\/p>\n

Each week, the last page of the publication carries an obituary, sometimes of a person quite well known but often of relatively obscure people. No matter who it is, the obituaries are so well written that I can’t imagine anyone ever questioning the wisdom of the latest selection.<\/p>\n

This week, the subject of The Economist’s obituary is Joseph Medicine Crow<\/a>, the last of the Crow Indian war chiefs who died earlier this month<\/a> at 102. It is a beautifully written piece, built around the story of how, as a young soldier in World War II, Medicine Crow made off with a herd of horses\u00a0belonging to some German SS officers.<\/p>\n

Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

“His childhood training had included facing his worst fears. ‘High Bird’ was his Crow name, the imperturbable floating eagle. He had been made to jump into freezing rivers, fight with a Sioux boy, go to the white hospital full of doctors and ghosts, and to the public school where a white girl had stuck pins in him. Not many months back, he had been ordered to lead a squad through enemy machinegun fire to carry out some dynamite: to face death, in other words. His commanding officer had naturally assumed he would be the ideal man to do it.”<\/p>\n

It is quite an honor, and well-deserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my estimation, there are few posthumous honors quite like being the subject of an obituary in The Economist, a weekly news magazine based in London but widely available in this country. Each week, the last page of the publication carries an obituary, sometimes of a person quite well known but often of relatively obscure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1545,1881],"class_list":["post-11704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-joe-medicine-crow","tag-the-economist","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}