Counting coup: becoming a Crow chief on the Reservation and beyond
Award winning non-fiction, Biography, Indigenous peoples biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
The last traditional Crow chief, Joseph Medicine Crow (born 1913), recalls growing up on a Montana reservation and relates some of his experiences after leaving it. He describes the four coups - war deeds - that he accomplished in Germany… during World War II that entitled him to be chief. Grades 4-7. 2006.