BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Acclaimed American Indian historian Joseph Medicine Crow, the last surviving war chief for his Plains Indians tribe, has died. He was 102.
Funeral home director Terry Bullis said Medicine Crow died Sunday.
Medicine Crow grew up and lived most of his life on the Crow Reservation near Lodge Grass, Montana.
As a child he listened to stories about the Battle of Little Bighorn told by a relative who served as a scout for Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.
Medicine Crow later served as the tribe’s historian and continued to lecture into his 90s.