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Crow Chief Big-Shoulder-Blade Mourned At Crow Agency
Obituary of Crow leader Big-Shoulder-Blade, prominent chief second to Plenty-Coos, detailing his life on the Crow reservation, his wars with Sioux, leadership, family, and death after pneumonia, with reflections on Crow culture and his diplomacy with both native and white communities. The report notes his burial, charitable acts, and role at Washington conferences.
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Big Shoulder
Plenty-Coos
Crow Agency
Childern
Absarka
Crow Land
Shoulder-Blade
Little Big Horn
Young Buck
Missouri
Shoulde-Blade
Miles
Big Medicine
Agency
Washington
Big-Medicine
Commissioner Jones
Roosevelt
Omaha
Big Shoudler- Blade
Hitchcock