Biography of Crazy Horse
5 September 1877
Crazy Horse (whose name in original language lakota Tȟašúŋke Witkó is, depending on the transliteration, or Tashunka Witko, Uitko Tashunka) was born in 1844 in the Black Hills (lakota language, Paha Sapa). His name, in fact, supposed to mean specifically "her horse is crazy", although the term "Crazy Horse" is now universally and historically used. Her dad, in turn named Crazy Horse (and later Waglula, having given its name to the son), belongs to the Oglala tribe, and his mother, Rattling Blanket Woman, is a Minneconjou. Also known as Radu, especially in early life, by virtue of its very curly (rather rare event, among Native Americans, as well as their very light color), survives the destruction of his village (where he lived in the Lakota camp together with his younger brother, High Horse, and a cousin, little Eagle) put in place by Federal soldiers , and in consequence of that event decides to drive the Sioux Oglala to withstand u.s. military killings carried out by natives.
He also participates in the conflict known as the "Grattan Massacre", leading the Sioux to kill u.s. Army forces. After witnessing the death of Conquering Bear, Lakota leader Crazy Horse begins to have visions. His father Waglula takes him into what is now known as Sylvan Lake, South Dakota, and here both sit for a vision, a hemblecha: an Eagle out of the Red corner leads them on a hill, where both have different visions. During the late 1950s and the early 1860s, Crazy Horse 's reputation as a warrior grows exponentially, as well as his fame among the Lakota, to the point that his exploits are reflected in the stories and passed down from generation to generation.
His first murder involves a member of the Shoshone had killed a female Lakota; It follows several battles against traditional enemies: the Arikara, Pawnee, Blackfeet, Shoshone and Crow. In 1864, after the Third Colorado Cavalry decimated the tribes of Arapaho and Cheyenne in Sand Creek massacre, Minneconjou and Oglala ally with them against the army of the United States. Crazy Horse took part in the battle of Platte River Bridge and the battle of Red Buttes, which take place in July 1865. At the same time, by virtue of his skill in battle, he was named Ogle Tanka Un, that is a leader in war. On 2 August of 1867 is one of the protagonists of the Wagon Box Fight, which will be staged near Fort Phil Kearny. The conflict, however, proves to be a loser for the Lakota, aided by the difference between the arms of the two sides. In the fall of that year, Crazy Horse invites Black Buffalo Woman to accompany him on a Buffalo Hunt in the Slim Buttes area.
Black Buffalo Woman is the wife of No Water, known as a man addicted to alcohol (at the time, the Lakota allowed women to divorce their husbands at any time, as long as they moved with another man or just hang the objects of her husband outside their housing). No Water is located away from the camp at the time that his wife and Crazy Horse they hunt: li tracks, however, Slim Buttes area, finding them inside a tipi (tepee, the typical Indian tents). After a gunfight in which Crazy Horse is saved by his cousin Touch the Clouds, No Water escapes on horseback. The elders of the tribe convinced crazy horse to avoid bloodshed, and so he abandons the intentions of revenge; continues his love affair with No Water, which, as a reward for the snub, gives him three horses. He, however, must give up the title of Shirt Wearer, since it is linked to another man's wife. Along with sitting bull, Crazy Horse is at the helm of over a thousand warriors on 25 June 1876, at the battle of Little Bighorn, the Cavalry of the army led by George Custer. However, the success of the Indians does not last long, because the Feds immediately recovered from the blow, get new victories in that year.
And so Crazy Horse on 6 may 1877, after commanding the twentieth century Oglala now fleeing and starving, is delivered to the Commander of Fort Robinson, Lieutenant Philo Clark died just minutes from midnight on September 5, about thirty-seven years, after being hit by a bayonet. But the reasons for his murder circulate different versions: some refer to shots fired by an armed soldier; others claim that, after leaving the reserve without permission for the purpose of bringing his wife-now ill--by their parents, he is stopped by General George Crook, who was afraid to come back to fight: first crazy horse would not be opposed to the capture, but after realizing it would be doomed to a prison, would begin to rebel guards , and would have been impressed by William Gentiles, a soldier who would have killed him as he was being restrained by his old friend little big man, Member of the Indian police who was accompanying him. Regardless of the reasons for his death, from that moment, the legendary figure of Crazy Horse enters the myth, in America as elsewhere in the world.
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