# @startribune on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPxAqz4EuOW
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-13T22:14:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Star Tribune (@StarTribune) — https://gondola.cc/StarTribune

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Growing up as a kid in Minneapolis, Johnny Crow never saw Native American firefighters manning the trucks responding to emergencies in his Phillips neighborhood south of downtown.

Still, it didn’t deter Crow, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, from becoming a firefighter for the city — a decision he looks back on with pride.

“That made a huge difference in the community for them to see a Native man with long hair that looks like me on a fire rig going to 911 calls,” Crow said.

About six months ago Crow, 37, and three other Minneapolis firefighters — Bobby Headbird, 38, Capt. Michael Graves, 41, and fire motor operator Jesse Strong, 45 — teamed up at Fire Station 6 downtown to respond to emergency calls on Engine 10. 

It’s the first time the city has had an all-Native crew, who spoke about their jobs ahead of Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday.

Read more at the link in our bio. Reporting and photo by Louis Krauss. 

#minnesota #minneapolis #indigenouspeoplesday

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