Riv. BAS. Sour. 
Wor oi CROW-FLIES-HIGH VILLAGE—MALOUF 157 
We held council with Crow-Flies-High, with a view to obtaining his consent 
to the adoption, by his tribe, of the civilized pursuits of the other Indians, and 
to the advisability of placing all their children of school age in school the coming 
fall, or as soon as the Catholic Mission school (now under course of construc- 
tion) should be completed. After four hours’ argument and persuasion, I am 
happy to report that we succeeded in getting his consent. These Indians will 
take up allotments, and commence farming the same, as soon as they can be 
supplied with sufficient agricultural implements. 
Crow-Flies-High’s band was still widely scattered up and down 
both sides of the Missouri River in 1894, when it was finally decided 
to move back onto the reservation. For a quarter of a century they 
had been without government assistance, and besides, Whites had 
appropriated much of the land, further reducing their chances of 
making a living. After a series of consultations between chiefs and 
Indian Agents it was agreed that the band should return to the 
reservation. A military escort, including Hidatsa Indian scouts still 
enlisted at Fort Buford, provided assistance. The Indian Agent, 
an Army Captain, boastfully announced to the Commissioner of 
Indian Affairs: “It is a source of gratification that the band of 
Crow-Flies-High was forced upon the reservation in the spring of 
1894...” (Clapp, 1895, 232). There is no real evidence except 
the assertion of Captain Clapp that force was necessary to make 
the Indians return to the reservation. At least part of the military 
escort consisted of Indian scouts who belonged to the Indian band. 
At Tobacco Creek, a few miles above Newtown, they were all re- 
united as a band for the first time in many years. At this time 
Crow-Flies-High relinquished his chieftainship in favor of a younger 
man. He knew that he would not live much longer, so he began to 
examine the qualifications of several prospective successors in his 
own clan. Finally he decided to support a more distant kinsman, 
Long Bear, as his choice for chief. After this, the band formed a 
long column which moved southward toward the reservation, travel- 
ing along the north bank of the Missouri River. Rufus Stevenson, 
who was then a mere lad, still remembers seeing the long line of 
Red River carts (a two-wheeled vehicle), pack and saddle horses, 
and travois wending their way toward the reservation. The arrival 
date is given as April 2, 1894 (Clapp, 1894, p. 222). 
When they reached the reservation most of them settled near the 
mouth of Shell Creek, southeast of Newtown, N. Dak. One final 
earthlodge was built there, probably the one reported by Wilson as 
constructed by Hairy Coat (Wilson, 1934, p. 380). This man’s 
name does not appear anywhere in connection with Crow-Flies- 
High’s band, and therefore it might be assumed that he moved to 
Shell Creek after 1894. The exiled band had for many years retained 
older elements of Hidatsa culture, since they were relatively isolated 
and out of contact with the changes being effected by Indian Agents 
