Pe-Ri-Tska-Wa-Ku-Re

Pe-Ri-Tska-Wa-Ku-Re. (Crow Flies High). , This butte honors Crow Flies High, a Hidatsa Indian chief who was a leader on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. He lived at Like-A-Fishhook Village until a disagreement with another tribal chief led him and his followers to abandon the village. , Around 1870, Crow Flies High, along with 140 other tribal members, settled near Fort Buford approximately 120 miles to the west, The Fort Buford settlement was not occupied continuously but served as a winter camp and base camp for hunting expeditions. , A summer camp was established on the west bank of the Missouri River in the early 1880's. That summer camp was called Crow Flies High Village, is located approximately 3 1/2 miles northwest of the point. In this agricultural settlement, the women tended garden plots, while the men fished, hunted and chopped firewood for the steamboats navigatgting the river. For nearly 25 years Crow Flies High and his band were self-sustaining, no longer receiving government rations. , By 1893, there was little game to hunt and settlers were moving into the region. Those factors along with military pressure forced the chief and his band to return to the reservation under U.S. Army escort in m1894. Crow Flies High died of pneumonia in 1900.