Sam
Lao
Sophomore
Native
American Culture
21
September 2013
Crow Tribe
Crow is the name
that is translated in English, what they call them self is Apsaalooke, which is
their native language Siouan and the meaning of this word
is children of the "large-beaked bird." The Crow since they have horses they travel to many places as a residential, and mostly are in the place around Montana and Wyoming, which is call today. The Crow tribe also creates their own language and writing. Here are some of the words. "kahe" (pronounced similar to "ka-hay") is a friendly greeting, and "ah" means "thank you" (Laura Redish and Orrin Lewis, Crow Indian Fact Sheet).
is children of the "large-beaked bird." The Crow since they have horses they travel to many places as a residential, and mostly are in the place around Montana and Wyoming, which is call today. The Crow tribe also creates their own language and writing. Here are some of the words. "kahe" (pronounced similar to "ka-hay") is a friendly greeting, and "ah" means "thank you" (Laura Redish and Orrin Lewis, Crow Indian Fact Sheet).
History
Apart from the
Crow Indians now, their ancestral tribe was live around the Headwater, which is
in the Mississppi River. The next place they remove to is the Devil's Lake and
it is a North Dakota region. They choose to move their settlement is mostly
because of Sioux Indians invading their hometown. Then they finally reach the
Valley of the Yellow River on the Great plain Montana and Wyoming, which is
where they were living now. There are three areas divided the Crow, just like a
little village, and it is evenly separated in those places, they are Mountain
Crow, River Crow, and Kicked in the Bellies. (Migration onto the Northern Plains)
Culture
The Crow have a
lot of traditional culture, such as their shelter, they use bison skin and
stretch them around the wood poles, they known as Teepee. The difference of
their Teepee to other tribes is they have the largest Teepee. A short brief of
what is inside the Teepee is; mattresses they put on the floor are made of buffalo-
hide and it with the seats and in the center there will be a fireplace that the
smoke could come out from the hole at the top of the Teepee. Now the Crow known
as the largest gather of Teepee in the world, because they still use them a lot
for traveling nowadays. (Crow Indians)
The Crow's
clothing are divide into two different kinds, one is for man and another is for
women. What women would dress is cloth that made out of deer and buffalo skins
the decoration is using elk teeth. When the weather got cooler, they will cover
their legs with moccasins, and they tie their hair in to two braids. For man's clothing
they wore shirt, trimmed leggings with a belt, a robe, and moccasins, they grow
their hair very long almost to the ground. (Crow Indians)
Buffalo are the
Crow Indian's main source; all part of their body could be use such as their
bone could use to make weapon and tools, their bladder could be use as a water
bottle and even their died meat could fertilize their crops. (Crow Indians)
Horses occurs
the most in the Crow tribe; "in 1914 they numbered approximately thirty to
forty thousand head. By 1921 the number of mounts had dwindled to just one
thousand" (Crow Indians).
The Crow have a
special system name Matrilineal, which is when the couple married the husband
have to live with the wife side. And which carry a important role of the tribe.
(Crow Indians)
Myth and
Religion
In Crow mythology,
they have many hero and character that represent the nature or the emotion of
them and which they would worship to them.
The shaman was
known as an Akbaalia.
Mannegishi are
those tiny human like fairies.
Cirape is a trickster.
Awakkule is a
trickster but he helps people instead.
Baaxpee is a
spiritual that have power to force someone into mature.
Andiciopec that
is a warrior hero and bullets will not work to him.
(Crow Indians)
Creation Stories
These are the
Creation story between two tribes and they both have differences and similarities
with each other.
Creation Story
of the Crow
The Creation
story of the Crow it start like this, there is nothing but water in the world
and it is very dark. Then an old man appears and he is from the Crow, he is
looking for anything expects the water. Two ducks swim by and the old man ask
them is there anything but the water and they answer there is something under
the water and they dive under the water. Once pick up a root and another pick
up a mud then the old man put them together. After a while, it form into an
earth, this is how the earth created for the Crow tribe. (©1997 StoneE
Producktions)
Sioux Creation
Story
This how the
Sioux believe how the world created, the creator of the world we told to hide
it from the human. The "it" stand for people create their own
reality. Moreover, many other animals give the suggestion of where to hide the
it, for instance, the eagle tell the creator to put the it up in the moon but
he have been refuse, others like the fishes they the creator to put it inside
the water then the creator tell him human will easy to find them there. At the
end the grandmother, tell the creator to put it inside human and the creator do
so. (Native American Creation Mythology)
Bibliography:
l Laura
Redish and Orrin Lewis, "Crow Indian Fact Sheet" (http://www.bigorrin.org/crow_kids.htm)
l Crow
Indians, " Crow Indians" (http://www.crystalinks.com/crow.html)
l "Handbook of American Indians, 1906" (http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/crow/crowhist.htm)
l ©1997
StoneE Producktions, "Old Man at the Beginning Crow" (http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/lore121.html)
l "Sioux
Creation Story" (http://nativeamericancreationmythology.weebly.com/sioux-creation-myth.html)
l "Native
American Creation Mythology" (http://nativeamericancreationmythology.weebly.com/sioux-creation-myth.html)
Image site:
http://www.ani-kutani.com/nativeamericanfacts/logo's%20seal's%20and%20emblem's.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/crow.html
http://www.realmagick.com/buckskin-dress
http://www.sd4history.com/Unit3/buffalouses.htm
