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      • Crazy Horse was an Oglala Sioux Indian chief who fought against removal to a reservation in the Black Hills. In 1876, he joined with Cheyenne forces in a surprise attack against Gen. George Crook; then united with Chief Sitting Bull for the Battle of the Little Bighorn. In 1877, Crazy Horse surrendered and was killed in a scuffle with soldiers.
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  1. Aug 24, 2018 · Crazy Horse was a Lakota leader and warrior who clashed with the U.S. federal government.

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    Curly was to follow the warrior's role to dress modestly and to do as the warrior's prophecy said so he would be unharmed in battle. For the most part, the vision was true and Crazy Horse was rarely harmed in battle, except for when he was struck by an arrow after taking two enemy scalps.

  4. 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).

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  5. Apr 20, 2021 · (1842-1877) Who Was Crazy Horse? Crazy Horse was an Oglala Sioux Indian chief who fought against removal to a reservation in the Black Hills. In 1876, he joined with Cheyenne forces in a...

  6. Oct 16, 2023 · Suzan Ball plays Black Shawl and Victor Mature plays Crazy Horse in the movie Chief Crazy Horse, 1955, via IMDB. The elders sent a young woman named Black Shawl (Tȟašína Sápa Win) to help Crazy Horse as he healed from his bullet wound. The two ended up falling in love and marrying in 1871.

  7. Crazy Horse was Waglula's only child with his wife Rattling Blanket Woman, who was from another Lakota band known as the Miniconjou. She affectionately called her son “Curly” or “Light Hair,” because his light, curly hair was unusual in their tribe.

  8. Most Americans know of Crazy Horse’s reputation as a fierce combatant, but a close study of his character by the Lakota historian Joseph M. Marshall III over the last three decades suggests...

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