Art by  YuliaZhuchkova

Sleepy Crow by Ted Depple

Ohara Koson

Crow on a Snow Covered Branch

ca. 1910

Seated, L to R: Yellow Bear, Red Cloud, Big Road, Little Wound, Black Crow. Standing, L to R: Red Bear, Young Man Afraid of his Horse, Good Voice, Ring Thunder, Iron Crow, White Tail, Young Spotted Tail.

In May 1875, Lakota delegations headed by Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and Lone Horn traveled to Washington in an attempt to persuade President Grant to honor existing treaties and stem the flow of miners into their lands. The Native Americans met on various occasion with Grant, Secretary of the Interior Delano, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Smith. He told them on May 27 that Congress was ready to resolve the matter by paying the tribes $25,000 for their land and resettling them into Indian Territory. The delegates refused to sign such a treaty, with Spotted Tail saying about the proposal:

"When I was here before, the President gave me my country, and I put my stake down in a good place, and there I want to stay. … You speak of another country, but it is not my country; it does not concern me, and I want nothing to do with it. I was not born there. … If it is such a good country, you ought to send the white men now in our country there and let us alone."

Left: Sintegaleska (Spotted Tail), Sichangu Dakota Chief Right: His wife "Julia Black Lodge"

Joni Mitchell & The Rolling Thunder troupe "Black Crow" Gatesville, TX, May 15, 1976.

Here's some colorful doodles 🌈

“Demand Vengence”

Ron Lim - Kelley Jones

Art by  kikoeart

Who has heard the Crow's love-whisper?

~Ted Hughes

"I smash and curse this skin Oh, I dig and dig and dig Pulling away at the fat and muscle Always searching further in Somewhere deep inside my body Has to be the answer for everything Somewhere deep inside my body Has to be the reason for why I’m like this"

Joni Mitchell - Black Crow