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- Crazy Horse (Tasunke Witko, l. c. 1840-1877) was an Oglala Lakota Sioux warrior and warband leader considered among the greatest defenders of Sioux lands against the forces of the US government in the 19th century. He is one of the most famous Native American figures in history and among the Sioux's most honored heroes.
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Aug 24, 2018 · Crazy Horse traveled to Big Butte to harass white miners in the Black Hills, while the Sioux faced continued hostilities from General Crook during a harsh winter that decimated the tribe.
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Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó [tˣaˈʃʊ̃kɛ witˈkɔ], lit. ' His-Horse-Is-Crazy '; c. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century.
Mar 12, 2024 · Crazy Horse ( Tasunke Witko, l. c. 1840-1877) was an Oglala Lakota Sioux warrior and warband leader considered among the greatest defenders of Sioux lands against the forces of the US government in the 19th century. He is one of the most famous Native American figures in history and among the Sioux's most honored heroes.
- Joshua J. Mark
May 23, 2024 · Crazy Horse, a chief of the Oglala band of Lakota Sioux who was an able tactician and a determined warrior in the Sioux resistance to European Americans’ invasion of the northern Great Plains. He helped annihilate a battalion of U.S. soldiers under George A. Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Nobody Knows When He Was Born. No one knows the exact year Crazy Horse was born. According to his close friend and tribesman, He Dog, he was born in 1842.
- He Wasn’t the Original “Crazy Horse” Cha-O-Ha, which meant “Among the Trees,” was Crazy Horse’s original name when he was born. It was his father, an Oglala shaman, who had originally inherited the name Crazy Horse, from his own father.
- His Mother Called Him Curly. Crazy Horse was Waglula's only child with his wife Rattling Blanket Woman, who was from another Lakota band known as the Miniconjou.
- But She Wasn’t Around for Long. Curly, or Crazy Horse as he became better known, was only four when his mother hanged herself. She hadn’t been able to have another child, and she thought Waglula didn’t want her in his life anymore, so she ended her own.
Crazy Horse, or Tasunke Witko, was born around 1840 in the midst of a war. The Lakota Nation had launched a concentrated expansion into the Trans-Mississippi West and was fighting several other...
May 29, 2018 · Crazy Horse was a Native American in the Oglala clan of the Eton Sioux Indians. He lived during the middle of the nineteenth century, when the federal government attacked Native Americans to take their lands. Crazy Horse worked as a warrior to defend his people and their homelands and communities.
