The Other Magpie was a Crow woman best known for fighting in the Battle of the Rosebud on the side of General George Crook against the Sioux and Cheyenne, alongside Osh-Tisch. [1]
Pretty Shield, a Crow author and medicine woman, described her as being wild and attractive, but not having a man. [1] She fought for revenge against the Sioux who had killed her brother. Most of the Crow carried rifles, but The Other Magpie carried only her belt knife and her coup stick. [2] She counted coup on a Sioux warrior and eventually killed and scalped him. The scalp that she took was one of only eleven taken in the battle. [3] Shield described her as having tied a feather on the end of her coup stick to symbolize her achievement. Later, she cut the scalp into pieces and gave them to the male warriors so they would have more scalps for the dance after the battle. [4] An alternative report has The Other Magpie take part in the dance herself. [5]
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The Crow, whose autonym is Apsáalooke, also spelled Absaroka, are Native Americans living primarily in southern Montana. Today, the Crow people have a federally recognized tribe, the Crow Tribe of Montana, with an Indian reservation located in the south-central part of the state.
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Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.
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Plenty Coups was the principal chief of the Crow Nation ("Apsáalooke") and a visionary leader.
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