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 famous Lakota Sioux Chief and Leader

A DREAM CHANGES A LIFE

In the Bible’s account of Joseph, his dreams and interpretations, as they played out during his life, made Joseph into a hero and savior for the Jewish nation.  Likewise, the entire story of Crazy Horse’s life is told through his dreams and interpretations, to become a hero and savior for the Lakota nation.

   This chronology is derived from Lakota winter counts, US military records, Judge Richter’s 1916-1917 interviews at Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Reservation tribal papers and numerous interviews with Buffalo Horn Chips heirs.

Suggested references:

LAKOTA BELIEF AND RITUAL by James Walker

VOICES OF OGLALA ANCESTORS—CEREMONIES by Afraid of Bear Tiospaye

CRAZY HORSE, THE LIFE BEHIND THE LEGEND by Mike Sajna

THE DEATH OF CRAZY HORSE, A TRAGIC EPISODE IN LAKOTA HISTORY, compiled by Richard Hardorff

TO KILL AN EAGLE, INDIAN VIEWS ON THE LAST DAYS OF CRAZY HORSE, by Ed and Mabell Kadlecek

CRAZY HORSE and THE REAL REASON FOR THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN by A. Rosss Ehanaman

YUWIPI, VISION AND EXPERIENCE IN OGLALA RITUAL by William Powers

SEARCH FOR THE LOST TRAIL OF CRAZY HORSE by Cleve Walstrom

CRAZY HORSE, THE STRANGE MAN OF THE OGLALAS, A BIOGRAPHY by Mari Sandoz

THE KILLING OF CRAZY HORSE by Thomas Powers

THE CRAZY HORSE SURRENDER LEDGER edited by Thomas Buecker

IMAGES OF AMERICA, ROSEBUD SIOUX by Donovin Sprague

IMAGES OF AMERICA, PINE RIDGE RESERVATION by Donovin Sprague

CHIPS COLLECTION OF CRAZY HORSE MEDICINES by Larry Belitz

The Lakota word “wotawe” refer to objects made by a medicine man to contact spirits.  For variety in this article, words “amulet”, “talisman”, “effigy” or “medicines” are used interchangeably.   Wherever useful, a page number of a mentioned wotawe will be referenced in my CHIPS COLLECTION OF CRAZY HORSE MEDICINES book to show the medicine item.

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Lakota war leader (c. 1840–1877)

For other uses, see Crazy Horse (disambiguation).

Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó[tˣaˈʃʊ̃kɛwitˈkɔ], lit. 'His-Horse-Is-Wild'; c. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by White American settlers on Native American territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles of the Black Hills War on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman Fight in 1866, in which he acted as a decoy, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, in which he led a war party to victory, earned him great respect from both his enemies and his own people.

In September 1877, four months after surrendering to U.S. troops under General George Crook, Crazy Horse was fatally wounded by a bayonet-wielding military guard while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in northwesternNebraska. He was honored by the U.S. Postal Service in 1982 with a 13¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.

Early life

Sources differ on the precise year of Crazy Horse's birth, but most agree he was born between 1840 and 1845. According to Šúŋka Bloká (He Dog), he and Crazy Horse "were both born in the same year at the same season of the year," which census records and other interviews place in 1842. Ptehé Wóptuȟ’a (Encouraging Bear), an Oglala medicine man and spiritual adviser to Crazy Horse, reported that Crazy Horse was born "in the year in which the band to which he belonged, the Oglala, stole One Hundred Horses, and in the fall of the year," a reference to the annual Lakota calendar or winter count. Among the Oglala winter counts, the stealing of 100 horses is noted by Cloud Shield, and possibly by American Horse and Red H

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