The Crow, also called the Absaroka or Apsáalooke, are a tribe of Native Americans who historically lived in the Yellowstone River valley and now live on a reservation south of Billings, Montana. Tribal headquarters are located at Crow Agency, Montana.
The name of the tribe, Apsáalooke (IPA: [əpsaːloːke]), was mistranslated by early interpreters as "people of [the] crows." It actually means "children of the large-beaked bird," a name given to them...
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The Crow, also called the Absaroka or Apsáalooke, are a tribe of Native Americans who historically lived in the Yellowstone River valley and now live on a reservation south of Billings, Montana. Tribal headquarters are located at Crow Agency, Montana.
The name of the tribe, Apsáalooke (IPA: [əpsaːloːke]), was mistranslated by early interpreters as "people of [the] crows." It actually means "children of the large-beaked bird," a name given to them by their neighboring tribe, the Hidatsa. The bird, perhaps now extinct, was defined as a fork-tailed bird resembling the blue jay or magpie. The Absaroka first encountered Europeans in 1743, two Frenchmen (the La Verendryes brothers from Canada), near the present-day town of Hardin, Montana. These explorers called the Apsáalooke beaux hommes, "handsome men." The Crow termed Europeans as baashchíile, "person with yellow eyes."
Some have placed the early home of the Crow-Hidatsa ancestral tribe as being around the headwaters of the Mississippi...
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