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Borrowing from Dakota Absaroka (literally "crow people, bird people").

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  • In the Crow Nation's area of the Rockies "Absaroka", "home of the

    Footnotes on the Lisa - Luttig Expedition, 1812 1812

  • Hunter Perry Zumwalt called Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks officials Wednesday morning from the remote Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area to report that he shot a wolf ....

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

  • A documentary of unspeakable beauty, Sweetgrass follows the last group of modern-day cowboys as they lead their flocks of sheep up to their summer pastureland in the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains of Montana.

    George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010

  • What it is: "Sweetgrass" is a documentary about thousands of sheep and their profanity-spewing wranglers during a final summer trek through the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains of Montana.

    Check Out ‘Bitch Slap,’ ‘Sweetgrass’ And ‘Mine’ In This Week’s unLimited » MTV Movies Blog 2010

  • So spoke old-time rancher Lawrence Allested in 2001, about the fact that he was the last person to drive his sheep up into Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth mountain range on a grazing permit that had been handed down in his Norwegian-American family for generations.

    George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010

  • Wolf hunting will be allowed first west of the Continental Divide in the Bob Marshall and Scapegoat wildernesses and the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness near Yellowstone National Park ....

    Montana Wolf Hunt Starts Today 2009

  • Whites called them Cherokees, Apaches, and Crows, but to themselves they were, respectively, the Tsulage, the People; the Nde, the People; the Absaroka, the People.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • So spoke old-time rancher Lawrence Allested in 2001, about the fact that he was the last person to drive his sheep up into Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth mountain range on a grazing permit that had been handed down in his Norwegian-American family for generations.

    George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010

  • Wolf hunting will be allowed first west of the Continental Divide in the Bob Marshall and Scapegoat wildernesses and the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness near Yellowstone National Park ....

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

  • A documentary of unspeakable beauty, Sweetgrass follows the last group of modern-day cowboys as they lead their flocks of sheep up to their summer pastureland in the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains of Montana.

    George Heymont: Mother Nature Provided The Soundtrack George Heymont 2010

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