Primary Sources
This is a short list of primary sources and archives that are related to the history of coal in Crow Country. Please do not hesitate to reach out with suggestions.

Archives: 

Little Big Horn College Library and Archive:
Eloise Whitebear Pease Collection I & II
Harold Stanton Collection

Montana Historical Society Archives: 
Lee Metcalf Collection 
Montana Attorney General Office

University of Montana, Mansfield Library: 
Mike Mansfield Papers 
John Melcher Papers 

Montana State University Special Collections:

Online Archives: 

archive.org

Montana History Portal

Montana Newspapers

Secondary Sources:

This is a short, and unexhaustive, list of secondary sources that discuss coal in Crow Country. Works of extreme interest are in bold. Please do not hesitate to reach out with suggestions.

Articles: 

James Allison, “From Survival to Sovereignty: 1970s Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination in Montana’s Powder River Basin,” Environmental Justice 5, no. 5 (2012): 252–63.

Megan Benson, “The Fight for Crow Water,” Montana; The Magazine of Western History 57, no. 4 (2007): 24–42.

Megan Benson, “The Fight for Crow Water: Part II, Damming the Bighorn,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 58, no. 1 (2008): 3–97.

Charles Crane Bradley, JR and Susanna Renple Bradley, “From Individualism to Bureaucracy: Documents on the Crow Indians, 1920-1945,” 1974.

Kelly Mae-Lane Branam, “Constitution -Making: Law, Power, and Kinship in Crow Country” (Ph.D., Indiana, Indiana University, 2008).

Peter F. Carroll, “Drumming Out the Intent of the Indian Mineral Leasing Act of 1938,” Public Land Law Review 7 (1986): 135-144.

Matthew LM Fletcher, “A Short History of Indian Law in the Supreme Court,” Human Rights 40, no. 4 (2015): 3–6.

Joseph R. Gaudet, “The Energy Capital of the World: A History of Grass, Oil, and Coal in the Powder River Basin” (ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2019), 248-249.

Timothy P. McCleary, “An Ethnohistory of Pentecostalism among the Crow Indians of Montana,” Wicazo Sa Review 15, no. 1 (2000): 117–35.

Lindsay G. Robertson, “The Judicial Conquest of Native America: The Story of Johnson v. M‘Intosh,” in Indian Law Stories, ed. Goldberg, Washburn, and Frickey (New York: Foundation Press, 2011), 29–60.

Burton M. Smith, “Politics and the Crow Indian Land Cessions,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 36, no. 4 (1986): 24–37.

Rennard Strickland, “The Tribal Struggle for Indian Sovereignty: The Story of the Cherokee Cases,” in Indian Law Stories, ed. Goldberg, Washburn, and Frickey (New York: Foundation Press, 2011), 61–80 
 

Books: 

James Allison, Sovereignty for Survival: American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).

Marjane Ambler, Breaking the Iron Bonds : Indian Control of Energy Development (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1990).

Andrew Curley, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2023).

C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

Frederick E Hoxie, Parading through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Sherry L. Smith and Brian Frehner, eds., Indians & Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest, (Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press, 2010).