Crazyhorse
...from their land and forced to live
on the reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event
is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It is one of the few times that
the Oglala Sioux made history with them being the ones who left the
battlefield as winners. When stories are told, or when the media
dares to tamper with history, it is usually the American Indians who
are looked upon as the bad guys. They are portrayed as savages who
spent their time raiding wagon trains and scalping the white settlers
just for fun. The media has lead us to believe that the American
government was forced to take the land from these savage Indians. We
should put the blame where it belongs, on the U.S. Government who
lied, cheated, and stole from the Oglala forcing Crazy Horse, the
great war chief, and many other leaders to surrender their nation in
order to save the lives of their people.
In the nineteenth century the most dominant nation in the western
plains was the Sioux Nation. This nation was divided into seven
tribes: Oglala's, Brule', Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow, Two Kettle,
and the Blackfoot. Of these tribes they had different band. The
Hunkpatila was one band of the Oglala's (Guttmacher 12). One of the
greatest war chiefs of all times came from this band. His name was
Crazy Horse.
Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date in the
fall of 1841. He was born of his father, Crazy Horse an Oglala holy
man, and his mother a sister of a Brule' warrior, Spotted Tail. As
the boy grew older his hair was wavy so his people gave him the
nickname of Curly (Guttmacher 23). He was to go by Curly until the
summer of 1858, after a battle with the Arapaho's. Curly's brave
charged against the Arapaho's led his father to give Curly the name
Crazy Horse. This was the name of his father and of many fathers...
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