The Crow Tribe
They now live on a
reservation south of Billings, Montana. Tribal headquarters are located at Crow Agency,
Montana.
The name of the tribe, Apsáalooke was translated into French by interpreters as gens du
corbeaux (people of [the] crows). It means "children of the large-beaked bird," a name given
by their neighboring tribe, the Hidatsa. The bird, perhaps now extinct, was defined as a fork-
tailed bird resembling the blue jay or magpie. In 1743 near present-day Hardin, Montana, the
Absaroka first encountered people of European descent - the two La Vérendryes brothers
from French Canada. The explorers called the Apsáalooke beaux hommes (handsome men).
The Crow called the French Canadians baashchíile (persons with yellow eyes).
The Crow Indian Reservation in south-central Montana is a large reservation covering
approximately 2,300,000 acres (9,300 km2) of land area, the fifth-largest Indian reservation in
the United States
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