Crow Tribe Elder, Historian Joe Medicine Crow Dead at 102

Crow Tribe Elder, Historian Joe Medicine Crow Dead at 102
President Barack Obama presents the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joseph Medicine Crow during ceremonies at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
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BILLINGS, Mont.—Joseph Medicine Crow, an acclaimed Native American historian and last surviving war chief of Montana’s Crow Tribe, has died. He was 102.

Medicine Crow died April 3, Bullis Mortuary funeral home director Terry Bullis said. Services would be announced April 4, he said.

A member of the Crow Tribe’s Whistling Water clan, Medicine Crow was raised by his grandparents in a log house in a rural area of the Crow Reservation near Lodge Grass, Montana.

His grandfather, Yellowtail, raised Medicine Crow to be a warrior.