Crow Indians - Encyclopedia

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

CROW INDIANS, or Absarokas (the name for a species of hawk), a tribe of North American Indians of Siouan stock. They are now settled to the number of some 1800 on a reservation in southern Montana to the south of the Yellowstone river. Their original range included this reservation and extended eastward and southward, and no part of the country for hundreds of miles around was safe from their raids. They have ever been known as marauders and horse-stealers, and, though they have generally been cunning.. enough to avoid open war with the whites, they have robbed them when ever opportunity served. Physically they are tall and athletic, with very dark complexions.