"Joe Medicine Crow and Bolt Action" Topic

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Ive never played Bolt Action, but a friend who plays it and has large armies, will be moving back to our area … soon. Maybe. 😄🙄🤷

Anyway, Joe passed the 4 tasks needed to become a War Chief, in World War II.

He counted coup on an enemy soldier.
He led a successful war party.
He took an enemy's weapon.
AND he stole 50 horses from a Waffen SS unit. 😄

I've cross posted to the Indian Warfare Board, because Germans count too.

Now that is impressive!

I have wondered if any of the tribes would update the tasks so that it was still possible to be a war chief.
Something like steal a vehicle instead of horses.

I made a trip from a ranch in the Sheridan Wyoming area to go to Garryowen Montana to be present when Joe received the Bronze Star and Legion of Honor. I knew him casually and saw him around Sheridan, Custer Battlefield and other places on the Crow reservation.

What surprised me at the ceremony was that there were many more whites there than Crow. It's right in the middle of the reservation. Neither Lodge Grass nor Crow Agency are far away.

I asked a local friend of mine about that and he said the clans around Crow Agency aren't too friendly with those around Lodge Grass so they did not show up. I knew the Cheyenne (whose reservations abuts the eastern boundary of the Crow) and the Crow often do not get along, I didn't know there were problems like that among the Crow. Sad.

Tom