The Native Woman Who Became A Chief — The Forgotten Story Of Woman Chief, The Warrior Who Led The Crow
The Gros Ventre warriors who killed her may not have been thinking about the treaty at all.
Violence continued alongside diplomacy, and the person who went out to test whether peace was possible paid the price.
The Crow as a nation would navigate the subsequent decades with more flexibility and survival instinct than many of their neighbors.
Their decision, eventually, to serve as scouts for the U.S.
Army in operations against their traditional Sioux enemies reflected a pragmatic assessment of their strategic position — one that kept the Crow people viable as a nation through the most devastating period of American expansion.
Woman Chief did not live to see any of that.
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