103 Robert Yellowtail's articles, Crow Council chairman

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103 Robert Yellowtail's articles, Crow Council chairman

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Yellowtail, Robert, 1889-1988

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Robert Yellowtail was a leader of the Crow Nation. Separated from his mother at the age of 4 years old, Yellowtail was culturally assimilated into a reservation boarding school. 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. Yellowtail's first official position, in 1912, was as a distric...