USGS Office of Tribal Relations
The soil you see is not ordinary soil – it is the dust of the blood and flesh and bones of our ancestors. We fought and bled and died to keep [others] from taking it. You have to dig down through the surface before you can find nature’s Earth, as the upper part is Crow. The land as it is, is my blood and my dead; it is consecrated...
- Curley, Crow scout