Crow Reservation

The Crow tribe originally owned a vast territory of 38 million acres in Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota. In 1851, they signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie, which recognized their right to this land. However, in 1868, they were forced to sell 30 million acres to the U.S. government. The remaining 8 million acres became the Crow Indian Reservation. The Crow tribe's land was further reduced in subsequent years due to dams, military expansion, and mining. Today, the Crow Indian Reservation has a land area of 2.2 million acres and is home to approximately 11,000 people, of whom 7,900 reside on the reservation. Twenty percent of the tribe speaks Crow as their first language. The reservation is bordered by Wyoming to the south and the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation to the east. It includes the northern end of the Bighorn Mountains, Wolf Mountains, and Pryor Mountains.