War Stories is a Contemporary Western American Indian Art Painting. In War Stories a Crow scout unfolds a robe made of buffalo hide, a meaningful garment symbolizing the triumphs of his hunts and bravery in warfare, as he carefully tells a story to two cavalrymen. With the absence of any written language among Indian tribes, storytelling was an essential and crucial element in learning from and preserving the past. The Crow scout shares the customs of his people as an act of respect and trust with the officer and sergeant. The scout shows his loyalty to the army men by wearing a civilian shirt and adopts from them only what he deems necessary or helpful, keeping his traditional moccasins, beaded necklace and feather-adorned medicine pouch, trappings of a true Indian brave