***The Crows hated the Sioux, and many Crows became scouts for the US Army.****
What a difference a few months can make in friends and enemies. After Little Big Horn, Gen Crook and Mackenzie attacked a Cheyenne village that had been at the battle. The survivors fled to the band of Crazy Horse who basically told them to “Hit the road!”
With no place to go and freezing weather, that band threw themselves on the mercy of Gen Crook and said they would be willing to scout for him AGAINST CRAZY HORSE!
Today those same tribes try to say the Cheyenne were welcomed by Crazy Horse. So why did they become scouts against Crazy Horse?
In the book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK by Bourke it tells which Cheyennes became scouts for Gen Crook.
“After Little Big Horn, Gen Crook and Mackenzie attacked a Cheyenne village that had been at the battle.”
That was the Dull Knife Fight.
“In the book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK by Bourke it tells which Cheyennes became scouts for Gen Crook.”
Bourke’s book was one of the first I read as a kid about the Indian Wars. That copy wasted away from constant reading, and I picked up another hardback copy in the 1970s that was in pretty good condition. I still have that to this day (I am in my 70s).
Probably the best Indian scouts were the Apaches under Crook in the 1880s. They knew the very inhospitable lands of the Southwest better than anyone.