“Outdoor Cooking” shows Crow Indian women on the Montana reservation cooking a meal around 1910. (Richard Throssel Collection, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming) The University of ...

Joe Medicine Crow was born October 27, 1913 on the Crow Indian reservation near Lodge Grass, Montana. One of his grandfathers, White Man Runs Him, was a scout for George Armstrong Custer before ...

At age 14, during a fight with rival Crow Indians, he managed to "count coup," or strike the body of an opposing warrior with a coup stick, and was re-named "Tatanka Yotanka," or Sitting Bull ...

The University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center is hosting “Through the Lens: The Life & Legacy of Richard Throssel,” an exhibition featuring photographs from the AHC’s collection ...