Crow Fair has been around for more than 100 years, and Macariah Pine has served as Miss Crow Fair for two of them. The 20-year-old will be parading at the big gathering in Crow Agency, Montana, in August. But she won’t just be waving at the crowds while sitting in a new elk-tooth dress and all of her other traditional finery atop a decorated horse.
Among other things, she’ll be camping with her family, dancing at the powwow, and building, putting up, and taking down her tepee during the week she and her family camp together in the Tepee Capital of the World. It’s the largest encampment in the world, with more than 1,000 tepees, along with the largest Crow/Apsaalooke parade, which stretches a mile and a half.
“Yeah, it is a lot of work,” she admits. But it’s also a lot of fun, the kind that creates warm
