Apsarokee

Apsarokee is a comprehensive study of the origins, migrations, intertribal warfare and relations of the Crow Indians during the formative years of their history. It includes early Crow contacts with the Spaniards and both Afro and White Americans, along with the first in-depth biography of the war chief Alapooish, more commonly known as Rotten-Belly or Sore-Belly. The author has conducted extensive research among the Crow people themselves and among other tribes in contact with them, notwithstanding consulting a wealth of published and unpublished material from a variety of sources. The result is a fast-moving, highly descriptive account which brings alive the old-time Indian world in a unique and accessible way. It is a work to be ranked alongside those of such illustrious scholars as George B. Grinnell, Robert H. Lowie and George E. Hyde among others and is a welcome, long overdue addition to the literature pertaining to the Crows