The Crow language is a member of the Missouri Valley Siouan languages.
The traditional shelters of the Crow are tepees made with buffalo skins and wooden poles. Inside they have mattresses to sleep on along the borders of their shelters, and a fire place, which the smoke escapes from through a hole in the top of the tepee. Many Crow families still own and use the tepee, especially when traveling. Crow Fair has been described as the largest gathering of tepees in the world.
Traditional clothing the Crow wore depended on gender. Women wouldn't dress very fancy because they were mostly around their shelters. They wore dresses made of mountain sheep or deer skins, decorated with elk teeth. They would cover their legs with leggings and their feet with moccasins. Crow women had short hair, unlike the men. The men dressed differently, with a shirt, trimmed leggings with a belt, a robe, and moccasins on their feet. Their hair was actually long, and sometimes decorated with certain items.
Further Reading
The World of the Crow Indians, As Driftwood Lodges, Rodney Frey, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1987, hardback, ISBN 0-8061-2076-2
The Crow, also called the Absaroka or Apsáalooke, are a tribe of Native Americans who historically lived in the Yellowstone river valley and now live on a reservation south of Billings, Montana.
The Crowlanguage is a member of the Missouri Valley Siouan languages.
The Crow were a matrilineal (decent through the maternal line), matrilocal (husband moves in with wife's family), and matriarchal tribe (females obtaining high status, even chief).
Crowlanguage terms for operations such as multiplication and division were not found in the survey.
Based on the interview data, it appears the Crowlanguage with the Crowlanguage geometric terms and Crowlanguage uses of mathematics operations is not typically being used to aid mathematics taught in English in the Crow reservation schools.
Crow bilingual education programs currently in the elementary schools may emphasize Crowlanguage lessons on mathematics functions in the Crowlanguage and thus assist non-Crow speaking teachers in facilitating Crowlanguage speaking children's accommodation of the English language mathematics concepts.
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