Medicine Crow died Sunday, April 3, 2016, at 102, according to the Gazette. He was the Crow's last war chief, the sole surviving link to a long military tradition. But he was also an activist ...
taking away his rifle Finally, in the last weeks of the war, he stole dozens of horses from a battalion of German officers. He is the last Crow Indian to become a war chief.
In fact, "The Last War" succumbs to only one thoroughly predictable stereotype--that of an immaculately dressed Communist officer who shorts a defenseless old village chief without blinking.