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Crazy Horse Tȟašúŋke Witkó | |
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| Born | Čháŋ Óhaŋ 1842 Rapid Creek, Black Hills |
| Died | September 5, 1877 Fort Robinson, Nebraska, USA |
| Cause of death | Murder |
| Nationality | Lakota |
| Political orientation | Anti-colonialism |
Tȟašúŋke Witkó (1842 – September 5, 1877), known in English as Crazy Horse, was a Lakota leader. He was an expert in guerrilla warfare.[1]
Early life[edit | edit source]
Crazy Horse was born in 1842 near the Black Hills. He joined the Akicita, which kept order and ensured that chiefs were doing their jobs.[1]
Resistance wars[edit | edit source]
Crazy Horse disagreed with the 1868 treaty with the USA. In 1876, he and Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake) led an alliance of Cheyenne and Lakota against Custer's Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn and destroyed the entire settler army. However, the military captured Crazy Horse the next year and killed him when he tried to escape.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: '"Indian Country"' (pp. 151–2). [PDF] Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807000403