The Plains tribes had rapidly adopted the…

1744 CE to 1755 CE

The Plains tribes had rapidly adopted the horse, which have allowed them to move out on to the Plains and hunt buffalo more effectively, from about 1740.

However, the severe winters in the North keep their herds smaller than those of Plains tribes in the South.

The Crow, Hidatsa, Eastern Shoshone and Northern Shoshone soon become noted as horse breeders and dealers and develop relatively large horse herds.

At the time, other eastern and northern tribes are also moving on to the Plains, in search of game for the fur trade, bison, and more horses.

The Crow are subject to raids and horse thefts by horse-poor tribes, including the powerful Blackfoot Confederacy, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Pawnee, and Ute.

Later they will have to face the Lakota and their allies, the Arapaho and Cheyenne, who also steal horses from their enemies.

Their greatest enemies will become the tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy and the Lakota-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance.

The Crow are generally friendly with the northern Plains tribes of the Flathead (although sometimes they have conflicts); Nez Perce, Kutenai, Shoshone, Kiowa and Kiowa Apache.

The powerful Iron Confederacy (Nehiyaw-Pwat), an alliance of northern plains Indian nations based around the fur trade, develops as enemies of the Crow.

It is named after the dominating Plains Cree and Assiniboine peoples, and will later include the Stoney, Saulteaux, Ojibwe, and Métis.

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Nakoda (Stoney) View → Lakota, aka Teton Sioux (Amerind tribe) View → Pawnee (Amerind tribe) View → Hidatsa people (Amerind tribe) View → Shoshone, Shoshoni, or Snakes (Amerind tribe) View → Ute (Amerind tribe) View → Blackfoot Confederacy View → Crow people, aka Absaroka or Apsáalooke (Amerind tribe) View → Cheyenne people (Amerind tribe) View → Arapaho people (Amerind tribe) View → Gros Ventre or “Atsina” people (Amerind tribe) View → Assiniboine people (Amerind tribe) View → Cree (Amerind tribe) View → Nez Perce (Amerind tribe) View → Kiowa people (Amerind tribe) View → Plains Apache, or Kiowa Apache; also Kiowa-Apache, Naʼisha, Naisha (Amerind tribe) View → Saulteaux View → Ojibwa, or Ojibwe, aka or Chippewa (Amerind tribe) View → Kutenai View → Plains Indian culture View → Métis in Canada View →

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