The Crow Indians The Crow, also called the Apsaalooke in their own Siouan language, or Apsaroke, are indigenous peoples of the Great Plains, who, in historical times lived in the Yellowstone River valley, which extends from present-day
Wyoming, through
Montana and into
North Dakota, where it joins the
Missouri River. Their name was given them by the
Hidatsa tribe, and meant "people [or children] of the large-beaked bird."
Today, the vast majority of the Crow live on the Crow
Indian Reservation in south-central
Montana The reservation, covering more than 3,600 square miles, is the fifth-largest
Indian reservation in the United States.
