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<p>A portrait of Joe Medicine Crow in full headdress stands next to his casket during his funeral service at the Apsaalooke Veterans Cemetery near Crow Agency, Mont., Wednesday, April 6, 2016. Medicine Crow was the Crow Tribe's last surviving war chief and a widely-renowned historian. Medicine Crow, who died April 3, 2016 at 102, spent decades cataloging Crow history and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Brown)</p>

<p>A portrait of Joe Medicine Crow in full headdress stands next to his casket during his funeral service at the Apsaalooke Veterans Cemetery near Crow Agency, Mont., Wednesday, April 6, 2016. Medicine Crow was the Crow Tribe's last surviving war chief and a widely-renowned historian. Medicine Crow, who died April 3, 2016 at 102, spent decades cataloging Crow history and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Bro…

April 7, 2016

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Crow Tribe war chief remembered as 'great man in two worlds'
April 7, 2016 8:30 a.m.

Crow Tribe war chief remembered as 'great man in two worlds'

BILLINGS — Prominent state leaders and tribal officials in ceremonial headdresses crowded around the flag-draped coffin of the last surviving war chief of Montana’s Crow Indian Tribe.