Ashshipite

The Ashshipite, or River Crow, were a Crow people of the Yellowstone, Musselshell and Powder River country. They separated from the Hidatsa.

The Crow hunted bison and grew tobacco for religious use. By the early nineteenth century the River Crow formed a largely independent group among the Crow. In 1825 their chief Arapooish left a gathering where other Crow leaders signed a treaty with the United States. In 1837, as smallpox swept through Hidatsa villages, some Hidatsa refugees joined the River Crow.