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Aleek-chea-ahoosh is Chief of the Absarokees (Crow Indians), has been Chief ever since Author Linderman knew him. Now 82, he is one of the few plains Indians who remembers the time before the white man overran the Northwest. Sitting outside his two-story chief's house (the only two-story house among the Crows) on Pryor Creek, Mont., he told the story of his life to Author Linderman...
Aleek-chea-ahoosh's training as a warrior began when he was a few years old, for the Crows were surrounded with enemies: Sioux, Arapahos, Blackfeet, Piegans, Cheyennes, Shoshones, Flatheads, Gros Ventres. As a small boy his elders taught him how to steal meat from his own village, that later he might steal enemy horses, "count coup." "To count coup a warrior had to strike an armed and fighting enemy with his coupstick, quirt, or bow before otherwise harming him, or take his weapons while he was yet alive, or strike the first enemy falling in battle, no matter...
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