He moved with an infantry division.

He fought the armed forces of Nazi Germany.

He later appeared in photographs, interviews, documentaries, university records, military histories, and government ceremonies.

His war-chief title was not a romantic nickname invented by reporters.

It came from Apsáalooke tradition.

When he returned to the Crow Reservation and recounted what he had done, elders recognized that he had completed the deeds.

He was honored as a war chief, eventually becoming widely known as the last Crow war chief.

That phrase — “the last” — can create the wrong impression if taken too literally.

Crow culture did not disappear when Medicine Crow died, and Apsáalooke people did not become a people without warriors, veterans, leaders, or traditional knowledge.

Rather, Medicine Crow was the last person in his era recognized for completing that particular traditional set of wartime deeds under the historical circumstances that had once produced war chiefs.