Who Was...Crazy Horse

'Crazy Horse (Tashunka Witko) was known among his people as a farsighted chief, committed to safeguarding the tradition and principles of the Sioux (Lakota) way of life. Distinguished by his fierceness in battle, he was a great general who led his people in a war against the invasion of their homeland by the white man. As a fierce enemy, Crazy Horse summoned the anger, fear — and respect — of the U.S. Government and its army'
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~Crazy Horse was born in 1844 at Bear Butte. When he was born, his name was Curley.

~His Father was also named Crazy Horse and was a respected medicine man.

~ Crazy Horse "Senior" Gave his name to his son when, at the age is sixteen, he saved Hump, a Sioux warrior, from some soliders.

~Crazy Horse was a member of a medicine society called the Thunder Cult, and he used visions to lead his people.

"On June 25, 1876, Crazy Horse lead an attack on Custer and his 7th Cavalry. This was at the "Battle of Little Bighorn" or "Custer's Last Stand." In the aftermath of Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse did not take his band to Canada, as did Sitting Bull, Gall, and others, but he remained in Montana to continue fighting the army's forces under the command of Col. Nelson A. Miles. By 1877 the buffalo was almost extinct and his starving people were put on the reservation. Crazy Horse had battled many soldiers but had still not managed to put a stop to the occupation of more and more whites to his native home. After discovering that resistence was futile, Crazy Horse surrendered to Col. Miles in May 1877. He was arrested on September 5, 1877. After that Crazy Horse was taken to Fort Robinson, Nebraska, where he was to be confined as a prisoner. Not wishing to be locked up like an animal, Crazy Horses resisted, and was killed by a bayonet thrust through his kidney. This scuffle was with a group of soldiers and Indian police. Crazy Horse died at age thirty-six (36) years of age. Which one of the men delivered the killing blow to Crazy Horse is not certain."
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