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BIA ordered destruction of horses
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2002 Federal policies contributed to the abandonment of farms on the Crow Reservation, a study of elder history has found. Many elders remember growing up on farms during the early 1900s but they no longer exist. One elder points to a Bureau of Indian Affairs-ordered slaughter of at least 44,000 horses in 1920. That destruction was followed by the Indian Emergency Conservation Works program, a federal program. Tribal members left their farms to live near the IECW camps. Depression-era weather conditions also hurt farming practices. Get the Story:
College seeks to begin new tradition of Crow farming (The Billings Gazette 9/3)
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