The Crow, called the Apsáalooke in their own Siouan language, or variants including the Absaroka, are Native Americans, who in historical times lived in the Yellowstone River valley, which extends from present-day Wyoming, through Montana and into North Dakota, where it joins the Missouri River. \

In the twenty-first  century, the Crow people are a Federally recognized tribe known as the Crow Tribe of Montana, and have a reservation located in the south central part of the state.

Pressured by the Ojibwe and Cree peoples (the Iron Confederacy), who had earlier and better access to guns through the fur trade, the Crow had migrated to this area from the Ohio Eastern Woodland area of present-day Ohio, settling south of Lake Winnipeg.

From there, they were pushed to the west by the Cheyenne.

Both the Crow and the Cheyenne were pushed farther west by the Lakota (Sioux), who took over the territory west of the Missouri River, reaching past the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming and Montana.

The Cheyenne eventually became allies of the Lakota, as they sought to expel European Americans from the area.

The Crow remained bitter enemies of both the Sioux and Cheyenne.

The Crow managed to retain a large reservation of more than ninety-three hundred square kilometers despite territorial losses.

Since the nineteenth century, Crow people have been concentrated on their reservation established south of Billings, Montana.

They also live in several major, mainly western, cities. Tribal headquarters are located at Crow Agency, Montana.

They now live on a reservation south of Billings, Montana.

Tribal headquarters are located at Crow Agency, Montana.