Crazy Horse

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the Blackfoot. Of these seven tribes each had different bands. , one of the greatest war chiefs of all times, came from the Hunkpatila. The Hunkpatila was a band of the Oglala’s (Guttmacher 12).
was not given this name, on his birth date in the fall of 1841. He was born of his father, an Oglala holy man, and his mother a sister of a Brule’ warrior, Spotted Tail. As the boy grew older his hair became 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 bravery in a charge against the Arapaho’s led his father to give him the name . This was the name of his father and of many fathers before him (Guttmacher 47).
In the 1850’s, the white settlers began invading the country where the Sioux Nation lived. They tore into the land with plows and hunted the sacred buffalo just for the hides. Being a very ecological society this went against the ...

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the Indians and the settlers. The Indians did nothing to cause violent trouble they would perhaps approach a covered wagon to trade or extract gifts of food. Even the most daring warrior might make away with a metal pot or pan but nothing violent like the books and movies lead us to believe (Matthiessen 7).

The straw that broke the camels back took place on August 17, 1854 when the relations between the Indians and Whites were shattered. Among the settlers heading west was a group of Mormons and as they were passing, a few miles south of Fort Laramie, an Indian stole a cow. The Mormons reported this to Lieutenant Hugh B. Fleming, the commander of the post. Fleming demanded that the ...

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