Robert Yellowtail

Robert Yellowtail

1889-08-04
98 (1988-06-20)
Lodge Grass, Montana, USA

Robert Summers Yellowtail was a leader of the Crow Nation. Described as a "20th-century warrior", Yellowtail was the first Native American to hold the post of Agency Superintendent at a reservation.

Lodge Grass, Montana, USA

Robert Summers Yellowtail was a leader of the Crow Nation. Described as a "20th-century warrior", Yellowtail was the first Native American to hold the post of Agency Superintendent at a reservation.

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Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe 1985

Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow tribe's turbulent past with modern-day accounts from Robert Yellow-tail, a 97-year-old Crow leader and a major reason for the tribe's survival. Poverty and isolation combine with outside pressures to undermine the tribe, but they resist defeat as "Contrary Warriors," defying the odds.