Did the Crow Indians and Plenty Coups fight in the war against the white man?
About 60 years after Lewis and Clark came to the area where the Absaaloga lived, the Indians and the whites began to fight over the land that the Indians used for hunting grounds. Some Indian tribes chose to fight while others, like the Absaaloga, choose to be helpful. One of the most famous battles of this time was with General George Custer. Plenty Coups’ vision of the chickadee and the wind storm had taught the Absaaloga to use the white man’s knowledge instead of fighting him. The era when Plenty Coups became a warrior and a chief was an unsettled time. During the Bozeman Trail era in the 1860s, the Sioux, Cheyenne and the Arapaho began fighting to try to keep the white man from their hunting area located in Wyoming and Montana. This era is called the Indian Wars period with The Red Cloud Wars in the 1860s and the battles with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in the 1870s. In the Battle of the Rosebud in 1876, General Crook’s forces battled and eight days later General Custer was defea
