Schedule of Presentations

 THURSDAY April 18th, 2024


Welcome – LBHC Interim President Neva Tall Bear
Tribal Official
Speaker of the House/Crow Tribal Legislature Senator Darwin Spotted

Prayer - Elder

Introduction to Symposium - Tim Bernardis

9:00-9:15 AM
The Significance of Land to the Apsaalooke
Darrin Old Coyote

9:15-9:45 AM
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Indian Land Policy and History
Christian McMillen

Break 9:45-10:00 AM

10:00-10:30 AM
Crow Land Cessions and the Allotment of the Reservation 1825-1937
Charles Bradley

10:30 – 11:00 AM
The Termination Era and the Loss of Crow Land from the 1940s to the 1960s
Christian McMillen

Break 11:00-11:15 AM

11:15-11:45 AM
“Your Freedom for Mine”
Richard Real Bird and the Big Horn River Solidarity/Tribal Sovereignty Alliance
A Relationship with the Land, Horses and People
Kennard and Jim Real Bird

11:45 am -12:15 PM
The 1988 Section 2 Case Won by the Crow Tribe in DC District Court and Its Backstory
Charles Cervantes

12:15-1:15 PM 
LUNCH Provided Box lunch with Photo Essay of the People and the Times of the 1980s

 1:15-1:45 PM
Attempts to Enforce and Negotiate Section 2 Through Litigation and Legislation Leading to the Situation Today
Majel Russell

1:45-2:15 PM
 Crow Indian Land Sales and Leasing:
Distressed Land Sales to Non-Indians - Sidney Fitzpatrick
Land Buyback Land Sales to the Crow Tribe - Darrin Old Coyote

Break 2:15 – 2:30 PM

2:30-3:00 PM
Panel of Young Crow People, What Land Means to Us Today
Noel Two Leggins
Rusty LaFrance
Wacey Real Bird
Tana Stewart Cummins
Velma Pickett









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Fight Between Crows and Sioux, March 19th, 1884