Two weeks after earning his Eagle, Globe and Anchor and being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Cicero Running Crane, a Blackfeet tribal member, was given another symbol of an eagle — a feather passed through his family, in honor of him becoming the tribe’s first Marine officer.
Running Crane, 23, was born in Great Falls and raised in Billings, graduating in 2002 from Skyview High School. He then went on to the University of Colorado, where he joined the Marine Corps ROTC program and graduated May 11 with a degree in molecular, cellular and developmental biology.
On Saturday, he was honored by his friends, family, tribal leaders and the Blackfeet Warriors Society, which determined through research that Running Crane is the tribe’s first Marine lieutenant.
“You’re among the highly ranked warriors from our reservation,” Keith Heavy Runner of the Warriors Society told Running Crane. “You’re right at the top, sir.”
In honoring Running Crane, tribal members sang traditional songs including the Warrior Song and Flag Song.
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