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...Prince Maximilian of Weid-Neuweid found the Crow a tribe of about 1,000 braves housed in 400 lodges, owners of perhaps 10,000 horses. That scientifically-trained German explorer learned that they robbed but did not kill white men, that their women were notorious for debauchery, that perversion was common among them. In 1871 the great U. S. anthropologist Lewis Morgan, whose studies of primitive society modified the views of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, wrote on the intricate structure of Crow family relationships, focusing the attention of many a lesser scientist on the haughty and dying tribe...
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