November is National Native American Heritage Month in the United States. Because of that, I am taking the opportunity to talk a little about the culture of the Plains Indians broadly and the Crow Nation specifically, setting up the story of a Crow warrior.
When children of the Crow Nation are four days old, an elder is asked to give then a name. When Joseph Medicine Crow was born, a visiting Sioux warrior was asked to do the honors and dubbed the child Winter Man (you can find out why in the above recording). Winter Man - who was later formally registered with the Crow Nation as Joseph Medicine Crow - was raised by his grandfather to be a warrior from an early age. Little did he know, his grandson would be given the chance to honor an ancient custom; not against traditional adversaries like the Sioux or the Cheyenne, but again a new enemy - the Nazis. But that is a story for next week.
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