"The Crow Country is a good country. The Great Spirit has put it in exactly the right place; while you are in it you fare well; whenever you go out of it, whichever way you may travel you fare worse."

"If you go to the south, you have to wander far over great barren plains; the water is warm and bad and you meet with fever and ague. To the north it is cold; the winters are long and bitter and there is no grass; you can not keep horses but must travel with dogs. What is a country without horses?"

"On the Columbia they are poor and dirty, paddle about in canoes and eat fish. Their teeth are worn out; they are always taking fish bones out of their mouths; fish is poor food."

"To the east they dwell in villages; they live well, but they drink the muddy water of the Missouri - that is bad. A Crow's dog would not drink such water."

"About the forks of the Missouri is a fine country; good water, good grass, plenty of buffalo. In summer it is almost as good as the Crow Country, but in winter it is cold; the grass is gone and there is no salt weed for the horses."

"The Crow Country is in exactly the right place. It has snowy mountains and sunny plains, all kinds of climates and good things for every season."

"When the summer heat scorches the prairies, you can draw up under the mountains, where the air is sweet and cool, the grass fresh, and the bright streams come tumbling out of the snow banks. There you can hunt the elk, the deer and the antelope when their skins are fit for dressing; there you will find plenty of white bears and mountain sheep."

"In the autumn when your horses are fat and strong from the mountains and pastures, you can go down into the plains and hunt the buffalo, or even trap beaver on the streams."

"And when winter comes on, you can take shelter in the woody bottoms along the rivers; there you will find buffalo meat for yourselves and cottonwood bark for your horses, or you may winter in the Wind River Valley, where there is salt in abundance."

"The Crow Country is in exactly the right place. Everything good is to be found there. There is no country like the Crow Country."

Oration by Chief Arapooish

This website's purpose is to inform people about the Crow Tribe,

• A brief history of the Crow Tribe.
• Insight into Crow Fair including a photo gallery.
• An overview of the Sundance.
• A basic review of the Crow Tribal Clan System.
• Crow Beadwork.

In my picture galleries I have photographs from many different time periods.

1. Late 19th century tribal portraits.
2. Photographs catching the transition into reservation life.
3. Photgraphs from several Crow Fair celebrations spanning several years.
4. Links to other popular Crow Tribal-themed webpages.
5. some other things I thought you might enjoy.

THERE ARE VARIOUS INTERPRETATIONS TO THE MYTH OF ORDER.

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