Page "Crow Nation" Paragraph 18

By 1851 the more numerous Lakota and Cheyenne were established just to the south and east of Crow territory in Montana.

These enemy tribes coveted the hunting lands of the Crow and warred against them.

By right of conquest, they took over the eastern hunting lands of the Crow, including the Powder and Tongue River valleys, and pushed the less numerous Crow to the west and northwest upriver on the Yellowstone.

After about 1860, the Lakota Sioux claimed all the former Crow lands from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Big Horn Mountains of Montana.

They demanded that the Americans deal with them regarding any intrusion into these areas.