Quote Originally Posted by Canuck of NI View Post
Clearly the Crow are a wise and noble people. I frequently notice that Native groups in general seem to relate well to Scots- I believe this has been true all through history. Certainly the Hudsons Bay Company always tried to recruit its outpost staff in Scotland, and in modern times I've know them to hit up the same groups here in Canada. And who knew Montana itself would be so kilt friendly? I have to get out more....
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The HBC and NWC were filled with Scots, the former recruiting from the Orkney Islands. The noted Arctic explorer and HBC doctor John Rae, for example, was an Orcadian.

Montana is setting of two noted Scottish-American authors, the late Norman Maclean and Ivan Doig. There is a great scene in the film adaption of A River Runs Through It were a kilted piper plays at the Presbyterian Church Picnic where the Rev. John Maclean served as dominie.

The festival takes place on the same weekend as the reenacment of Custer's last stand at the Little Big Horn battle field.
I would bet that reenactment was not on the battlefield, as NPS doesn't allow mock combat scenarios on original battlefields (and rightly so) -- it may have been living history.

T.