Native Americans

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1. Native Americans
§ Theyendanega
§ Medicine Crow
§ Tecumseh

Medicine Crow, whose name is more accurately translated as Sacred Raven, was born somewhere in the Musselshell country in 1848. Medicine Crow lived his first fifteen years like his father. As a boy he would hear children’s tales. Then came the reading of warrior’s deeds. Crow got trained to run, swim, wrestle, and hunt. He also learned secrets of nature. Crow dreamed of becoming a warrior and then a chief. As a youth of fifteen, Medicine Crow went on his first war party. He earned no honors but gained valuable experience. In the next nineteen years, he led the strong and often dangerous life of a Plains Indian warrior. For twelve of those years he was a war chief noted for his agility in hand-to-hand combat, his courage, and his dependability as a war party commander who usually brought his men back home not only safely but victoriously. Because of his dreams and the fact that his people saw his seemingly impossible visions come true, he was revered as a visionary medicine man.



2. Indian Groups
§ Iroquoise Tribe
§ Apsaroke Tribe
§ Hidasta Tribe

The 1840’s were trail time for the Apsaroke tribe. During this time, the 1840’s the outbreak of smallpox had reduce the population of the Apsaroke. It had reduced the population from more then 8,000 to less then 1,000. The tribe had to be made strong again for fear that surrounding aggressive tribes succeed in finishing the job the deadly pox had begun. Although boys had to become men quickly, the youth of the Apsaroke tribe accepted the challenge. Many died, but those who survived became great warriors and wise chieftains.


3. American Indian events
§ Battle of the Thames
§ Battle of Tippecanoe
§ Beaver Wars

In 1811 General William Henry Harrison led an army against Prophet's Town on the Tippecanoe River in Indiana. . Harrison wanted to defeat the Indians before Tecumseh succeeded in un...