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The Path To Leadership
Robert Summers Yellowtail Sr., was born in Lodge Grass, Montana on August 4, 1889. It was a tragic and difficult time for the Crow people. The traditional way of life was not allowed by the U.S. government. Even if it had been, there were no more buffalo left to hunt, the reservation was being partitioned by treaty after treaty, practicing traditional religion or the Crow language was not allowed. At the age of four Yellowtail was boarded at a reservation school away from tribal influences. Harsh punishments awaited any child who attempted to practice their native culture.

At age 13, Yellowtail, who was known for both his intelligence and stubbornness was sent to Sherman Institute in Riverside, California where he excelled, graduating in 1907. He became interested in Indian law and wanted to help his people, which lead him to spend time at the Extension Law School in Los Angeles. He would gain a law degree via correspondence courses from the prestigious University of Chicago. Yellowtail had decided to make defending the Crow tribe his mission.

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Robert Yellowtail

Leader of the Crow Nation

Robert Summers Yellowtail (August 4, 1889 – June 20, 1988) was a leader of the Crow Tribe. Described as a "20th-century warrior",^[1] Yellowtail was the first Native American to hold the post of Agency Superintendent at a reservation.^[1]

Early life and education

Yellowtail was born in Lodge Grass, Montana in 1889. Throughout his life, Yellowtail went by three Crow names. He was referred to as Bíawakshish, or "Summer", then Shoopáaheesh, or "Four War Deeds", and finally Axíchish, or "The Wet", which was shared with another war chief who was in the same clan as Yellowtail.^[2] Separated from his mother at the age of 4 years old, Yellowtail was culturally assimilated into a reservation boarding school.^[3] When he was 13 years old, he went to the Sherman Institute, in Riverside, California, graduating in 1907. He then attended the Extension Law School in Los Angeles, transferring to the University of Chicago Law School, where he gained his Juris Doctor degree.

Personal life

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Robert Yellowtail
Library @ Little Big Horn College
From: Graetz, Rick, and Graetz, Susie. Crow Country: Montana’s Crow Tribe of Indians. Billings: Northern Rockies Publishing Company, 2000.
"A 20th-century warrior,” Robert Yellowtail, born in Lodge Grass, Montana in 1889, had a profound impact and influence on his tribe.
Boarded at a reservation school from the age of four, he was not allowed to speak his own language or be with members of his tribe. The agent at that time, Major Samuel Reynolds saw the high level of intelligence in the young Yellowtail and soon sent him to the Sherman Institute in Riverside, California where he excelled in his classes. Later, determined to defend the rights of his people, he earned a law degree through extension classes from the University of Chicago.
In 1910, Montana Senator Thomas Walsh introduced a bill in Congress to open up the Crow Indian Reservation to white homesteaders, beginning a personal seven-year span of attacks on Crow lands.
Chief Plenty Coups, the last of the traditional Crow chiefs, determined to fight Wa