This context also helps explain some of the specific framing of her story in the outsider accounts.

Denig and Kurz were not attempting to write Crow internal history.

They were writing from the perspective of people embedded in the fur trade world, for audiences interested in that world.

The specific details they found remarkable — a woman chief, multiple wives, a scalp presented as a gift — were remarkable to them partly because of the specific cultural expectations they brought to the encounter.

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