note - the only decoration he wears is his CIB, there's nothing else, besides being an Apsáalooke war chief !

He got the honorary degree because before the war broke out he was one semester and a thesis away from achieving a graduate degree in Anthropology. The man is a genuine warrior/poet. A true knight and intellectual, he just also came with severely over weighted brass testicles that may have un balance him from time to time.. I mean you'd be insane or on a hellbent mission to try to steal a German officers horse let alone the entire stable all with out a weapon on that one apparently. I mean, leave some for the rest of us Joe.. Rest in peace my brother in humanity.

A Knight, a Doctor and a Warchief, thats one helluva resume, if i was employing and was handed a resume like that, no matter in which field, i'd hire him just out of respect.

They screwed his nephew over. He completed 3 of 4 tasks. He was a Green Beret in Vietnam. He couldnt find horses. He found a VC with two huge elphants he was using for cargo. He stole both. When he got back he recounted his deeds and they told him they had to be horses and denied him the title.

It made me emotional the first time I heard it. He's like a living relic of another time at this point.

Well said, Balls Deep. Well said.

Me too balls deep

HELLYEAH 👊

Saluted from Syracuse NY Onondaga nation

My family

BOB BRASS same here

I know your family is proud of Joe Medicine Crow.

LaQuan Yellowtail are you a Crow?

If that’s true then you have an enormous pair of shoes to fill. A true hero and real life warrior in the truest sense of the word. Rest In Peace Joseph Medicine Crow

Dude your great grandpa’s my hero, that’s awesome

Tom Francis lol I bet he thought long and hard about it...

Yup!! that's a movie for Hollywood right there. The Native American Warrior in Nazi Germany. (How he made it out alive.)

The best thing of all is the wild West stories were wildly popular in Germany even at this time and most German boys knew something about US natives and their culture.

Nah, he stole the 50+ horses from the SS, not the Werhmacht. Still, totally badass, and I can only imagine the confusion and how pissed the SS were that they'd had all their horses ganked by a single American.

Yeah, Germans practically worship Native American culture nowadays

CougarNick78 they didn't fight for Americans...they fought for their land.

@@denepride2910 Basically they didn't like us but they disliked Germany even less.

Warriors go to war. That's what he was raised to be. So he did it.

Dene Pride Maybe. But how do you know?

@@maximaldinotrap Us natives will tolerate anything except a fascist.

Respect bro for you and all of the Śami people! I am Oglala Lakota/Northern Cheyenne

now everyone speaks like a native american in the comment section

+Guy Irvin Caw! No, seriously though lotta respect for Old Joe Medicine Crow (Now that I typed it out it actually sounds really cool.)

Completely agree

+Ivan M Cause he isn't white.

Hollywood probably does not know about his story, these days, it is only about ISIS and stuff like that. They have never actually tried to learn our (the crow and other tribes) history. I would also very much like then to make a Hollywood movie about my grandfather.

Maria Whiteman Then you should write it! Go write it right now. Hell, add me on skype - katanagod, and i'll tell you how to properly format the script, what program download, etc. I'm a film student so I may as well share what I've learned. Natives gotta help each other out.

There should be, his is a great story about a true hero!!

I'm still waiting for a good movie about the code talkers' experience at Guadalcanal or the 442nd Infantry Regiment in Italy like they talked about in this same documentary. Hell the only movie they made about the 1st Special Service Force was some fiction about the Americans being the Oscar to the Canadians' Felix as if they were the odd couple. There's a whole industry to be had in pitching movies about the military units that are actually famous who haven't the Band of Brother's treatment yet, let alone making pieces about the individuals who suffer even more negligent underrepresentation or misrepresentation. Joe Medicine Crow would a excellent man to make a biographic flick about.

Thank you. He has sang that song to my brothers and sister and I, we had always grown up listening to his stories. It's a shame that he has passed, but he has lived a long and happy life and I am proud to say that I am his great granddaughter

God bless him and thanks for both his service and example.

Yeah you respect them now, but you exterminated them all. Famous American hypocrisy

@@MariaSpottedHorse He was quite a man, you are rightfully proud of him.

What a man brave man with a heart

Cid Alderlaine our belief is he he will go to the happy hunting grounds I'm not crow I'm lakota

I’m Mexican and are beliefs is when we die with honor we will sit with are fathers wait for he next native leader to come and sit next to the next leader of his tribe that’s respect but if you disrespect your elders we cut your hair in the after life as a shameful person.

Me as well. The old traditions NEED to be passed down. I sure hope there’s Crows that can still sing this

Totally agree. His documentaries are unlike any other

Native American*

+Stefan Taylor TRUE American.

Stefan Taylor Notice the American in there?

And as a native, a truer American than any of us.

@@odonnell1218 Imagine him riding on the captured German horses and singing the song of his people. What an amazing sight it must have been.

I'm sorry it had just bothered me that you just said 'Mr. Crow' his full last name is Medicine Crow.

shut up. no one cares if you're offended. let's just respect that this man was a great American hero

+Chauchat 3137 I'm sorry for wanting people to get my Grandfathers name right

Part of true respect is getting the name right.

@@MariaSpottedHorseBased.

After he died. He said those were his "last words"

@@soldierofmisfortune6284 I had read elsewhere he took him as his prisoner.

@@soldierofmisfortune6284 His "last words" before he let the soldier go.

True strength isn't about knowing when to take a life. But when to spare one.

Scalps are for trading. I reckon there wasn't much of a market for them back at HQ.

When it comes down to it Native Americans are the greatest warriors in the land

Maria, you are his great-granddaughter?

yes i am

Wow, you are lucky. He is a brave person :)

drew nabors IAM TOO!! I'm his great grandson in my family there are Blacksmiths,Brass(I'm the only on in my family so I'm spoiled) and Pretty weasels. Yup : ]

there are more ppl too in my family.........

I served in the Vietnam War with Lyle Medicine Crow. He was a decendant of this war chief.

Im pretty sure it is

And Spawn.

It IS !

It is

Or the guy who voiced keith david from saints row

+John Lesnak Nope what ??

+John Lesnak say it we was Real Warriors of this Land

true...we are Born warriors...

It is called counting coup. An honorable tradition.

@@johnemerson1363 it continues...

@@yakamarezlife I certainly hope so.

Bet when the Germans heard it and saw this fearless dude brazenly raid and rustle their horses they probably crapped their pants for fear of really pissing him off

It doesn't sound to me like ANYBODY took his dignity. A true BAMF

to esanch: dunno what BAMF is, I hope it is not a bad word, if not pls, tell me what you meant, thanks. if it is a bad word pls, don't tell me, thaks. cheers

No, it is not a bad word. It means when u walk in a room, all turn and respect or fear you, depending upon their position toward you

esanch thanks ever so much. (:

+klári geiszler I'm from around the area I live in Montana, but don't give to much credit, they're still wild outside by the Metra the big place for rodeos, right by where I live the pipeline is messed up and the government is taking apart barriel grounds and someone has already been killed with an Arrow by these people not to long ago, maybe a month.