Montana War Chief Receives Highest Civilian Honor

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By KFBB News Team

Story Published: Aug 12, 2009 at 9:50 PM MST

Story Updated: Aug 12, 2009 at 9:50 PM MST

A 95-year-old Montanan receives the nation's highest civilian honor.
Joseph Medicine Crow is the last living Plains Indian War Chief, and one of 16 people to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Medicine Crow is an author and historian from Lodge Grass, and fought in World War II wearing war paint beneath his uniform.
He became a Crow War Chief after performing four war deeds while fighting Nazi's...
Those are to touch a living enemy, take an enemy's weapon, steal an enemy's horse, and lead a victorious war party.
Medicine Crow and 15 others, including Stephen Hawking, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Billie Jean King gathered for the ceremony in the East Room of the White House, where President Obama personally placed the medal around each recipients neck.

Thursday, Aug 13 at 1:44 PM Fran Good Medicine Wolf wrote ...

It feel good to see that one of our elder is honored by the President Obama and the rest of the country. To bad more of us aren't.

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