Red was the Blood of Our Forefathers

Red was the Blood of Our Forefathers
Episodes from Crow Indian Intertribal Warfare
By Brian L. Keefe

6x9, 319 pages, Paper, photographs, maps, bibliography, index.

At a Crow Indian gathering in 1992 in Montana, Brian Keefe, a visitor from England, met Joe Medicine Crow, one of the leaders of that tribe. Keefe returned many times in the years that followed to write down stories told to him by Joe Medicine Crow and other Crow historians.
Because a man’s status in his tribe was based on deeds in combat, Crow history revolves around stories of intertribal warfare. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Sioux, Cheyenne, Blackfeet and Shoshoni applied constant pressure in attempts to take over Crow land in the Big Horn and Yellowstone regions of Montana and Wyoming. The conflict ranged from horse-stealing expeditions to battles where the losing group was “rubbed out.”

Keefe chronicles many of these encounters in Red was the Blood of Our Forefathers. He has studied and researched the various cultures, history and religions of the North American Indian for these past fifty-seven years. He received a degree in Anthropology from Goldsmith’s College, London. He has given lectures on intertribal warfare on the North American continent, and has appeared both on television and radio programs as an authority on that subject.

Ah-ho, Ah-ho! Let us ride now into Indian Country with Brian Spotted-Tail-Eagle and relive those "Buffalo days" of old.
-Joseph Medicine Crow, Ph.D. Lodge Grass, MT. 2006

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