Joseph Medicine Crow

BILLINGS, Mont. — Joseph Medicine Crow walked in “two worlds” — white and Native American — and made his mark on each.

Medicine Crow, who died Sunday at 102, grew up in a log home on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation, hearing stories during his childhood from direct participants in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Decades later, he returned from World War II a hero in his own right for performing a series of daring deeds that made him his tribe’s last surviving war chief.