Riv. Bas. Sur. ° 5 = r 
Pap. No. 29] CROW-FLIES-HIGH VILLAGE—MALOUF 159 
near Glendive, Mont. (Mulloy, 1941). Later they became the Crow 
Indians. At the Hagen site, as at Crow-Flies-High Village, the exiles 
had built a single earthlodge of a simplified type as a ceremonial 
center and had erected smaller structures as dwellings. 
There is reason to believe that the formation of Crow-Flies-High’s 
band was no fortuitous circumstance in which conservatives from all 
segments of the Hidatsa tribe joined in protest to an acute political 
situation at Fort Berthold. It is more probable that 1t was made up 
primarily of Hidatsa who had always represented an advance element 
in the movement up the Missouri River over the centuries. Crow- 
Flies-High’s band may have always been a separate unit within the 
Hidatsa structure. The Crow Indians may have had a similar asso- 
ciation with the Hidatsa in centuries earlier, when they made their 
break as an independent tribe. 
Crow-Fles-High’s band, according to Alfred Bowers (personal 
communication), had worked its way up the Missouri River from 
South Dakota, preceding other Hidatsa bands who were more 
sedentary. This advance group had always done more hunting, made 
pottery less often, and in several other ways differed from the others. 
Life at Fort Berthold must have been a greater strain on these people 
than on the other Hidatsa. 
The study of Crow-Flies-High Village and its occupants gives us 
a better understanding of human characteristics and social processes 
which have determined the affairs of the sedentary tribes of the Mis- 
souri River during the past 200 years. It links archeological fact and 
ethnological reality. 
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