Editing Plenty Coups (section)

===Young warrior===
Plenty Coups started learning early in life the ways of an Indian warrior.  Constant attacks by neighboring tribes provided many opportunities to prove his valor, and he quickly started earning coups.  He spent his youth fighting and learning alongside many other young warriors, including Medicine Crow (Sacred Raven), who would also become a chief.  Many times he would cover himself with a gray wolf hide, and sneak alone into an enemy camp and scout about.  He would return to his fellow warriors and devise a plan of attack.  They would execute the attack, and Plenty Coups would seek to [[Counting coup|touch an enemy with his coup stick]] or take a weapon or horse, then return without being killed or captured.  This was considered a greater act of bravery than actually killing an enemy.<ref name=coups2/>

He soon gained a reputation for being fearless and cunning, like the wolf.  He became a member of the elite warriors of his tribe. They would do everything [[Contrary (social role)#Reverse warriors|backwards]], in a fashion that was bizarre to onlookers, which helped create fear in hearts of their enemies because of their reputation.