Crow Flies High

[2]: 100  Having lost his closest relatives in the epidemic, Crow Flies High was raised by Eats-From-The-Line clan members.

[1]: 10 In 1870, Crow Flies High left the joint Hidatsa, Mandan and Arikara Indian reservation at Fort Berthold in North Dakota due to conflict with the chiefs.

By keeping a low profile while hunting small game in the area, the band managed largely to stay outside the reservation system until 1894.

[1]: 10 and 12  His heretical faction gathered around the new leader Bobtail Bull, a Hidatsa, with Crow Flies High functioning as the military chief.

[3]: 77  Crow Flies High and Bobtail Bull accused some leaders of unfair distribution of government rations.

[2]: 139  Urged to leave at least for a time, Crow Flies High and Bobtail Bull headed up river.

[1]: 16 The dissident band settled on the north bank of the Missouri, about two miles above the mouth of Yellowstone River on an outlying part of the Fort Buford Military Reservation (see Map 1).

[1]: 25  Nearby Fort Buford reduced the risk of attacks on the small village from the Sioux and it provided a market for furs and robes.

[1] : 116  The new settlement consisted mostly of log cabins, earth lodges, and a number of families dug storage pits.

[2]: 140  On one occasion, Crow Flies High quickly paid damages for a few heads of domestic cattle butchered by young men from the village.

[1]: 119 Regularly, families resettled at Like-a-Fishhook Village, while new ones joined the dissidents and moved into vacated log houses.

[4]: 155  Once accused of killing beef cattle by ranchers in the area, Crow Flies High went to the Agency and defended himself and the village.

Indian Agent Abram J. Gifford accepted the explanation of Crow Flies High, so the case ended with defeat to the stockgrowers.