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Little People of the Pryor Mountains
The Little People of the Pryor Mountains (known as Nirumbee〔Daniels and Stevens, ''Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World,'' 1903, p. 1421.〕 or Awwakkulé〔Frey, ''The World of the Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges,'' 1993, p. 68.〕 in the Crow language) are a race of ferocious dwarves in the folklore of the Crow Nation, a Native American tribe.〔Hauck, ''Haunted Places: The National Directory,'' 2002, p. 259.〕〔(Murray, p. 147. )〕 The Little People were also seen as imparting spiritual wisdom, and played a major role in shaping the destiny of the Crow People through the dreams of the legendary Crow chief, Plenty Coups.〔
==Native American beliefs in "Little People"==
Stories and religious beliefs about "Little People" are common to many if not most Native American tribes in the West.〔〔(Plenty Coups and Linderman, p. 23. )〕 Some tribes (such as the Umatilla of Oregon) referred to them as the "Stick Indians," while the Nez Perce called them ''Itśte-ya-ha''.〔Roth, ''American Elves: An Encyclopedia of Little People From the Lore of 380 Ethnic Groups of the Western Hemisphere,'' 1997, p. 147.〕
In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition stayed for a time with a band of Wičhíyena Sioux on the Vermillion River in modern-day South Dakota. On August 25, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and 10 other men traveled about north of the river's junction with the Missouri River to see the "mountain of the Little People". Lewis wrote in his journal that the Little People were "deavals" (devils) with very large heads, about high, and very alert to any intrusions into their territory.〔(Lewis and Clark, ''The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition,'' 1987, p. 505. )〕 The Sioux said that the devils carried sharp arrows which could strike at a very long distance, and that they killed anyone who approached their mound.〔 The Little People so terrified the local population, Lewis reported, that the Maha (Omaha), Ottoes (Otoe), and Sioux would not go near the place.〔 The Lakota people who came to live near the "Spirit Mound" after the Wičhíyena Sioux have a story no more than 250 years old which describes how a band of 350 warriors came near the mound late at night and were nearly wiped out by the ferocious Little People (the survivors were crippled for life).
The Crow (or Absaroke) were originally part of the Hidatsa, a Siouan people who lived a settled, agricultural life along the Missouri River in what is now western North Dakota.〔Sullivan, p. 53.〕 Some time prior to the mid-17th century, the Hidatsa leader No-Vitals led a large number of Hidatsa west into the Yellowstone River valley of south-central Montana, where the tribe lived on the plains, by the river, and in the nearby Big Horn, Pryor, and Wolf Mountains.〔 On the move due to pressure from eastern and midwestern tribes moving west due to white encroachment, the Crow may have settled in the Yellowstone Valley only a few decades before the arrival of Lewis and Clark.〔(Montgomery, ''Many Rivers to Cross: Of Good Running Water, Native Trout, and the Remains Of Wilderness,'' 1996, p. 32. )〕 A fundamental tenet of Crow religion was ''maxpe'', or "the sacred."〔Sullivan, p. 54.〕
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