Crow´s Breast, Hidatsa

[Dietmar]

Thanks to HinTamaheca we have photos of Crow´s Breast in the “Old photos – Hidatsa”-thread posted. Here is some additional information about him from the Fort Berthold website:

Crow´s Breast, Hidatsa

Born abt 1816 died abt. 1870s

Crow's Breast was born about 1820 probably at the Knife River villages near present-day Bismarck, ND. He was a member of the Tamisik clan. Of his early life not much is documented.
In the winter of 1856 Sir George Gore, the eighth Boronet, of Manor Gore, Country Danegel, Ireland, who with Kit Carson came to the Upper Missouri region to hunt and visited with Crow's Breast.
On Sept. 20, 1858 Crow's Breast is documented as holding a Goose Medicine Ceremony at Fort Atkinson to assure the return of the geese in the coming spring Also in attendance was Poor Wolf, Bear Hunter and other members of the band. (NDH, v.33:2)
In 1864,Chief Crows Breast refused to join the Dakota in their war against the Americans.
Crow's Breast was listed a Head Chief representing the Hidatsa on an unratified Treaty dated July 27, 1866.
On November 1st, 1866, he warned Capt. William G. Rankin of the 3rd. Battalion, 13th Infantry, Ft. Buford, that a large party of 2500 - 3000 Sioux warriors were on the war path 37 miles south.(Innis, Sagas) We also find a description of Crow's Breast at the age of 50. He is described as being "Tall, straight, sturdy built at the age of 50 had no gray hair".(Trobriand, Military Life)
Crow's Breast was a member of the Black Mouth Society and owner of the Woman Above Bundle, the Eagle Trapping bundle, and owned rights in the Naxpike ceremony. Crow's Breast also was his portrait of by Stanley J. Morrow.

Sources:
"Crow’s Breast was a signer of the 1860 Ft. Berthold treaty. He was a Headman of the Blackmouth society. " ("Three Affiliated Tribes Cultural Page : Tribal chiefs of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara". MHA Times. vol. 7:8 , (March 1, 1996)., pp. 6.).

Innis, Ben, Sagas of the Smokey-Water : true stories reflecting historical aspects of the Missouri-Yellowstone confluence region, 1805-1910 : Williston, N.D : Centennial Press, c1985.

Like a fishhook village : Washington D.C., Dept. of Interior, 1972.

North Dakota History :Bismarck, N.D. : State Historical Society of North Dakota, vol. 33 : number 2.

Bowers. Alfred W. Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization. Uni. of Chicago Press.

Trobriand, Rbegis de., Military life in Dakota : the journal of Philippe Rbegis de Trobriand: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [1982] c1951.

See: lib.fbcc.bia.edu/FortBerthold/TATBIO.htm


Crow´s Breast & Lean Wolf, first and second chiefs of the Hidatsa, by Morrow


Crow´s Breast & Lean Wolf, first and second chiefs of the Hidatsa, by Morrow






Crow´s Breast by Goff

[grahamew]

Not much to go on at this distance, but I wonder if the man on the right is Crow's Breast?