Alan D. Medicine Top, Big Horn Co., MT

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Alan D. Medicine Top

 CROW AGENCY - Alan D. Medicine Top, 22, of Crow Agency, died
 March 1, 1998, in Billings of injuries sustained in a two-car accident.

 "Been there a long time" was born April 24, 1975, in Crow Agency, a
 son of Emmette Medicine Top and Lois Crooked Arm. He grew up and
 attended schools in Crow Agency and Hardin.

 Alan was an outdoors man who was mentored by Richard White Clay,
 teaching him all aspects of breaking and caring for horses. He actively
 participated in rodeos throughout Montana and Wyoming as a saddle
 bronc rider. He was given the nickname "Bucking Horse" by his rodeo
 friends. When he was not on the rodeo circuit, he was at home
 breaking horses for family and friends.

 He was a member of the Native American Church, United Pentecostal
 Church, Ties the Bundle Clan and was a Ties The Bundle kid.

 Survivors include his father, Emmette Medicine Top of Birney; his
 mother, Lois Crooked Arm of Crow Agency; seven brothers, Albert
 Rivers, Leonard Gary Gardner (Kathy) and Chalan Medicine Top, all of
 Hardin, Emmette Medicine Top Jr. of Busby and Alan (Faye) Little
 Light of Crow Agency, Manford Gardner (Laura) of Lodge Grass and
 Donald Gardner Jr. of Arizona; 18 sisters, Hilary Isis, Paige, Karri,
 Terra and Berna Medicine Top of Hardin, Star, Shecheen and Sabette
 Medicine Top of Busby, Gusena Gardner of Oklahoma, Natashia
 Crooked Arm, Aretha Brown, Lelah McConnell, Whisper Wilkinson,
 Shawna Stops, LaRae and Patience White of Crow Agency, Susan
 Gardner of Lodge Grass and Linda Birdinground (Duane) of Wyola; his
 grandparents, Clarence Medicine Top of Birney, Charles Brown Jr., of
 Crow Agency and Ed Little Light of Hardin; his adopted
 great-grandmother, Myrtle Strong Enemy of Pryor; his aunts,
 Gladiolus (Jim) Hill, Otelia (Ray) White, Charlene (RC) Old Coyote, Gail
 (Clinton) Stops, Iola Iron, Patricia and Pauline Little Light, Edwina
 Venne and Rosella Stewart; his uncles, Mathis, Pius, Vincent and
 Henry Crooked Arm, Dennis Mountain Sheep, Clyde, Yvon and Curtis
 Little Light; and his cousins, Pamela Back Bone, Rebecca White,
 Valencia, Myron and Brad Crooked Arm.

 Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Thursday in the St. Dennis Parish
 Hall. Interment will follow in the Crow Agency Cemetery. Bullis
 Mortuary of Hardin is entrusted with the arrangements.