CROW

The Crow were a tribe of Indians of America belonging to the group linguistic sioux. They occupied an inclusive territory between the rivers Yellowstone and Powder. They were afterwards first nomadic hunters of bisons and growers semisedentari of corn. They lived in very great curtains and in the huts of earth. The women practised the art of the ceramics. Plain plan they returned probably nomadic hunters and this it was due to the introduction of the horses and the rifles, that they facilitated nomadic life a lot. They were very skilled riders and one of the games from them preferred it was to compete the horses between tribe. You/they had divided in clan esogamici. They practised the cult of the sun and the thunder. You/they had united Hidatsa to the tribe, but in half the eighteenth century they were separated. The causes but the two theories more are not certain you confirm they speak of a controversy for of the meat of buffalo and the rivalry between two heads. After the separation the Crow were divided in two gangs: the River Crow and the Mountain Crow. The Crow succeeded to establishing friendly relationships with the white farmers and they furnished explorers to the army of the United States during the Indian war. Today the 5.000 survived Crow live in their reserve of Montana.