Crow WOMEN

[tipifan]

Not that I would want to push or advocate "gender mainstreaming" on this board, but it has occured to me that most of the threads, if not all of them, are pretty much male-oriented (except for a condolence on the passing of Gloria Medicine Crow).

There are many photographs on the Internet that simply have the caption "Crow woman" or "Crow girl" ... many of the women photographed by Throssel, for example, are without names on the website of the University of Wyoming.

Perhaps someone of you out there can shed some light on the Crow women and girls?

I attach one of my favorite pictures -- a young Crow mother guiding her child out of the tipi.

(Yes, I have all the biographies that are available from Amazon.com. )

[Dietmar]

Tipifan,

you are absolutely right. We too often neglect Indian women. We do have a Lakota Women thread, but it would be nice to have more information on Crow women, too.

Thanks.

[jinlian]

Great suggestion, Tipifan.

Pretty Medicine Pipe, born in 1859, the grand-daughter of a trapper, first married Chief Old Crow, whom she accompanied to Washington together with the 1873 delegation; in 18880, they had a son named His Enemy is Dangerous, who died in 1894:



Pretty Medicine Pipe and Old Crow, 1873



1873, Crow delegation, group photo - Pretty Medicine Pipe sits in the front row, far left


Sometime between 1885 and 1890, Pretty Medicine Pipe married Spotted Horse - they were together until Spotted Horse's death in 1902. Pretty Medicine Pipe and Spotted Horse had two sons, Plenty Arrows (b. 1891) and Strikes the Rider (b. 1899) and a daughter, By Herself (b. 1889)
After Spotted Horse's death in 1902, Pretty Medicine Pipe married her former husband's friend White Man Runs Him (apparently, as requested by Spotted Horse himself sometime before his death.

Pretty Medicine Pipe died on April, 1943 - she's buried in the Custer Battlefield beside White Man Runs Him.

Pretty Medicine Pipe photographed by Throssel:



Pretty Medicine Pipe, detail from a group photo, early 1900s (McCracken collection):

[jinlian]

Shot with Her Horse, a little Crow girl (Wanamaker photo, 1913)