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Post by Diane Merkel on Mar 22, 2008 8:44:42 GMT -6
Thanks to John Doerner and Lee Noyes for sending this: Considered a warrior chief by his tribe and the oldest living Crow Indian veteran, Medicine Crow has been nominated for the Medal of Freedom by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. The medal is the highest civil award an American can receive.
Medicine Crow, 94, is recognized as a warrior chief by his tribe for completing all four actions of counting coups while in battle as an Army soldier in World War II. The first member of the Crow Tribe to earn a master's degree, Medicine Crow is a noted tribal historian and the author of several books on Crow culture.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., joined Tester in nominating Medicine Crow. During an announcement Wednesday morning, Simpson called Medicine Crow a "renowned figure" who is included in narratives of the West in major museums around the world. Article: www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/03/20/news/local/26-medal.txt
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Post by clw on Mar 24, 2008 10:19:35 GMT -6
Joe is an institution in himself. He certainly deserves this recognition and I'm pleased to see it requested for him before he passes on.
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Post by crzhrs on Mar 24, 2008 12:52:51 GMT -6
And to think Joe knew some of the participants at the LBH! How much closer to history can you get than that?
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Post by Treasuredude on Jun 26, 2008 15:24:23 GMT -6
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Post by Diane Merkel on Jun 26, 2008 23:58:51 GMT -6
Funny! Corky Reed used to go nuts when guys wore eyeglasses that weren't of the period. I can only imagine how he'd feel about cell phones!
Those guys pretty much fit Dark Cloud's description of typical reenactors. They never would have made it in the Army of '76!
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Post by bc on Jun 27, 2008 9:33:13 GMT -6
Congrats to Joe Medicine Crow!!!
I have a friend who reenacts and explained the whole situation to me and how the fun has been taken out of it and ruined by a few rich uppity pureists. Apparently there are separate classes of reenactors starting with the rich uppity pureists who have original everything. Anyone one else gets treated with disdain. Then one step lower are the ones with original style homespun cloth which is hand stitched. This also uppity group thinks they are better than the rest. Then you get the ones who buy machine woven cloth but hand stitched. And so on down the list till you get to the bottom dwellers who spend their life savings of a few thousand dollars to buy reproduction items so they can go out and have fun and enjoy reenacting until they are sitting around the campfire and get ostracised by some of the uppity cliques cause their uniforms are machine made and they aren't wearing period skivvies under their uniform, etc.
Striving for authenticity is one thing but uniforms are so unit and period specific it is hard to do. You can't use a cw uniform at a 1876 reenactment and vice versa cause the pureists wouldn't like it. More money for more uniforms. I thought reenacting would be fun but I don't have time to reenact and now I know I couldn't/wouldn't spend the money to even try.
Also learned recently there is a difference between being a member and a member in good standing. That means there must be a category for a member in bad standing. I haven't seen the lists I guess and don't know who keeps them either. I thought that one you paid your dues, you were a member, period. There are other classes such as donor or overseas but I didn't know they had anything to do with standing.
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