Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life.
Through his life story and description of the Su.
As the principal figure in the Crow-Shoshone Sun Dance religion, Yellowtail has preserved traditional values in the face of the constantly encroaching, diametrically opposed values of materialistic modern socity.
As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hunters, and Medicine men who knew the freedom and sacred ways of pre-reservation life.
Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life