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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: A Murder of Crows
Description: Glenn Simpson, Executive Director. Golden Gate AudubonÂ
I was raised in the high prairie of Montana, very near the Crow Indian reservation.  While growing up a boy under the Big Sky I became fascinated– as boys once did– with the plains Indians and their culture. Â
When we played cowboys and Indians, I was an Indian.  Â
But one thing puzzled me about my Crow Indian neighbors.  Why, I wondered, did they name their tribe after a pesky black bird that nobody seemed to like having around.  Why not name the tribe Eagles, Bears or...