Library @ Little Big Horn College

Faculty and students at Little Big Horn College have been compiling Crow place names and the narratives associated with them in an ongoing project that began in 1996. Over five hundred names have been recorded. The majority are within historic Crow Territory but some are as far away as central Alberta, Utah, Oklahoma and Washington, D.C.

You can search the database by entering an Apsáalooke or English place name or by initial letter of Apsáalooke name or by State or Reservation District.

Ammalapáshkuua

• So named because of the sawmill (W. McAdow Sawmill) once located at Coulson City (predecessor to Billings) to supply steamboats with wood.
• Location: Hardin to Bozeman district, Montana
• English literal translation: Where They Cut Wood
• English name: “Billings”