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Joseph Medicine Crow became the last Plains Indian war chief ever after completing all four required tasks while fighting in Europe during World War II. These included touching an enemy soldier, stealing his weapon, leading a successful war party, and stealing an enemy's horse.

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A black fur trader in the American West got captured by a band of Crow Indians and got mistaken for a Chiefs long lost son. He eventually became their Chief himself.

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1. Liver-eating Johnson" was an American mountain man rumored to have killed, scalped, and/or eaten the livers of up to 300 Crow Indians after a group of Crow braves murdered his wife. He ate the liver because it had significance for Crow beliefs about the afterlife

2. In 1847 the wife of Mountain Man John Johnson was killed by a group of Crow Indians which prompted Johnson to embark on a vendetta against the tribe. He supposedly killed and scalped more than 300 Crow Indians and then devoured their livers to avenge the death of his wife.

3. Author Joe Medicine Crow. During World War II, he became the last war chief of the Crow Tribe, and was the last living Plains Indian war chief. During his life he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Bronze Star Medal, and the Légion d'honneur. He lived to be 102.

4. Joe Medicine Crow, who died Sunday at 102, was the last living Plains Indian war chief. He stole fifty Nazi SS horses during WWII. At one point he was about to kill a German soldier when the man shouted 'mamma', after which Medicine Crow let him go.

5. Sitting Bull was actually born Jumping Badger. He was named after his father when completed a successful raid on some Crow Indians when he was a teenager. The name was slightly amended, though, and became 'sitting Bull."

6. Liver-Eating Johnston. A man who said he was going to cut out and eat the livers of Crow Indians, an insult, after they killed his wife. He would later go on to become a deputy sheriff.

7. John Colter (member of Lewis and Clark expedition) Was captured and forced to sprint for his life by a group of Crow Indians for 6 miles before killing 1 Indian, hiding in a beaver dam, and walking to a fort for 11 days (all while naked.)