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Medicine Crow, Last Plains Indian war chief, dies at age 102

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The last surviving war chief of Montana's Crow Tribe has died. Funeral home director Terry Bullis said Joseph Medicine Crow, died Sunday. He was 102. Medicine Crow was a member of the Crow Tribe's Whistling Water clan. He 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. When he was 6 or 7. Crow had to run barefoot in the snow to toughen his feet and spirit. He recalled listening as a child to stories about the Battle of Little Bighorn from those who were there, including his grandmother's brother who was a scout for Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The National Parks Service claims Medicine Crow was the last living person who heard of the Battle of Little Bighorn directly.

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