Dakoda-Crow Bucking Horse Gray Boy, "Never Slips", 16, of Rocky Boy died on Friday, June 9, 2017 due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Wake services begin at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 9, 2017, at the Kenneth Writing Bird residence on Bitterroot Road.  His funeral services will be held in Crow Agency on Monday, June 12, 2017.  Holland and Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.  Please visit Dakoda-Crow's online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for his family at www.hollandbonine.com .

Dakoda-Crow was born on November 16, 2000, in Havre, to Reese M. Gray Boy, Sr. and Berna Medicine Top.  He was raised in Harlem, Crow Agency, and Rocky Boy, attending Harlem Elementary and High Schools, and Rocky Boy High School.

Dakoda-Crow was an outgoing teenager who loved to joke and tease.  He had a large circle of good friends, including Kordell Small and Cauy Johnson, with whom he spent a great deal of time.  He loved basketball, football and Pow Wows, and video games and Facebook were favorite pastimes.  He traveled a lot with his uncles and his cousin/brothers, spending time with them and attending Pow Wows.  He was so proud of being selected as a Varsity player for the Rocky Boy Stars this past year.

Dakoda-Crow was preceded in death by his mother Berna Medicine Top; his grandparents Charles Gray Boy, Sr. and Carolyn (Writing Bird) Gray; his stepsister Janika Doney; his aunts Kari Medicine Top and Jana Gray Boy; and his uncles Allen Don Medicine Top and Lyndon Gray.

He is survived by his father Reese Gray Boy, Sr.; his sisters, Tristin Gray Boy, Sammi Jo Gray Boy, Nakota Gray Boy, Jacina Doney, Marian Knight; his brothers, Reese Gray Boy, Jr.; his adopted sister Alice Gray Boy; his adopted brother Christopher Strike; his grandparents Kenneth & Lorena Writing Bird, and Geraldine Rutherford, and Pearl & Ed Whitford; his Crow grandparents Lois Crooked Arm and Emmet Medicine Top; his aunties and uncles, Charles (Pearl) Gray Boy Jr., Curtis Gray, Wesley (Lanette) Gray Boy, Marvin (Lee) Gray Boy, Edith (Nolan) Gray, Rose Esparza, Jason (Jackie) Belcourt, Tara Medicine Top, Gazena Howe, and Mikel Decrane; and numerous cousins, including the Little Light, Crooked Arms, and Rides the Horse families on the Northern Cheyenne, Crow, Fort Belknap, and Rocky Boy Reservations.  He is also survived by his large circle of good friends who are too many to name, but you know who you are.