Crow King (in
Lakota ''Kȟaŋǧí Yátapi''), also known as Medicine Bag That Burns, Burns The Medicine Bag or simply Medicine Bag; was a
Hunkpapa Sioux
The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (; Dakota language, Dakota: Help:IPA, /otʃʰeːtʰi ʃakoːwĩ/) are groups of Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes and First Nations in Canada, First Nations peoples in North America. The ...
war chief at the time of the
Battle of Little Big Horn. Crow King was one of Sitting Bull's war chiefs at the battle, he led eighty warriors against Custer's men on Calhoun Hill and Finley Ridge. For the duration of the battle of Little Bighorn, Crow King and his band of eighty warriors attacked Custer from the south, allowing Crazy Horse and Gall to surround the 7th Cavalry. Crow King died April 5, 1884; according to the April 11, 1884, ''
Bismarck Tribune
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Histo ...
'', he died of "quick consumption" from a long-lasting cold and received the rites and sacraments of the Catholic Church. The location of his burial is unknown.
His orphaned daughters, Mary Laura Crow King "Weasel" (Hintunkasan) (1876–1889) and Emma Crow King "Red Deer Kid" (Tingleskaluta) (born 1880) married Paul Cournoyer and moved to
Armour, South Dakota, with their two children.
See also
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Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull ( lkt, Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake ; December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock I ...
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse ( lkt, Tȟašúŋke Witkó, italic=no, , ; 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by wh ...
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Chief Gall
Gall (c. 1840 – December 5, 1894), Lakota ''Phizí'', was an important military leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He spent four years in exile in Canada with Sitting Bull's people, after the wars ended and surre ...
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Sioux
The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (; Dakota language, Dakota: Help:IPA, /otʃʰeːtʰi ʃakoːwĩ/) are groups of Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes and First Nations in Canada, First Nations peoples in North America. The ...
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General Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
Custer graduated from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his class, b ...
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Hunkpapa
References
"Famous Indian Chiefs" at www.axel-jacob.de, accessed February 2, 2006* https://web.archive.org/web/20080820085052/http://littlebighorn.8k.com/biographies/biocrowking.htm
* http://www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/crow_king_little_big_horn.html
* https://web.archive.org/web/20080511165157/http://www.dlncoalition.org/dln_nation/chief_crow_king.htm
* http://www.ancestry.com/
* http://www.newspaperarchive.com
Year of death missing
Lakota leaders
Native American people of the Indian Wars
People of the Great Sioux War of 1876
Year of birth unknown
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