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Top 10 Astonishing Facts about Crazy Horse.

Crazy Horse was born in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1841, the son of the Oglala Sioux shaman also named Crazy Horse and his wife, a member of the Brule Sioux.

Crazy Horse had a lighter complexion and hair had curls. Boys were traditionally not permanently named until they had an experience that earned them a name.

Thus  Crazy Horse was called “Curly Hair” and “Light-Haired Boy” as a child.

As an adolescent, Crazy Horse earned the name 鈥淗is Horse Looking,鈥� but he was more commonly known as 鈥淐urly鈥� until 1858 when following a battle with Arapaho warriors he was given his father鈥檚 name, while his father took the name Worm.

Crazy Horse was a new kind of leader to emerge after the Civil War, at the beginning of the army鈥檚 wars of annihilation in the northern plains and the Southwest.

Crazy Horse became a part of the Akicita, a traditional Sioux society that kept order in villages and during migrations.

He fought to prevent American encroachment on Lakota lands following the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, helping to attack a surveying party sent into the Black Hills by General George Armstrong Custer in 1873.

1.      Crazy Horse  Mountain Sculpture is the Largest in the World

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Under construction since 1948, the Crazy Horse Memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, the Oglala Lakota chief in the late 1930s, as a response to Mount Rushmore.

To date, the memorial built by a non-profit that refuses government funding is still incomplete.

When it is finished, the monument carved into the side of South Dakota鈥檚 Thunderhead Mountain will stand 563 feet high.

Operated by the nonprofit Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, the sculpture grounds are open to the public and reportedly receive more than one million visitors each year.

2.  Crazy Horse Stole Someone’s Wife鈥�

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Black Buffalo Woman was Crazy Horse’s, first love. They met in 1857, but she married a man named No Water while Crazy Horse was on a raid.

Crazy Horse continued to pay her attention and in 1868 eloped with her while No Water was on a hunting party.

He and Black Buffalo Woman spent one night together before No Water took back his wife, shooting Crazy Horse in the nose and breaking his jaw.

Despite fears of violence between villages, the two men came to a truce.

Crazy Horse insisted that Black Buffalo Woman shouldn鈥檛 be punished for fleeing and received a horse from No Water in compensation for the injury.

Black Buffalo Woman鈥檚 fourth child a girl, was a light-skinned baby suspected of being the result of her night with Crazy Horse.

3.   鈥�. And then Married another Woman then Another.

After Crazy Horse was shot, a woman named Black Shawl was sent to help him heal. Once again, Crazy Horse fell in love. They married and had a daughter, who died when she was a toddler.

Black Shawl died of tuberculosis after which he married a half-Cheyenne, half-French woman named Nellie Larrabee.

4.   His First War Experience was Caused by a Dispute for a Cow.

In 1854, a loose cow wandered into a Lakota camp in present-day Wyoming.

The cow did not last there long: Somebody killed it, butchered it, and shared the meat among the community.

Consequently, Lieutenant John Lawrence Grattan and 29 U.S. troops arrived at the camp to arrest whoever stole the cow.

 Eventually, in the ensuing melee, they shot and killed the Lakota chief, Conquering Bear.

 In response, the Lakota killed all 30 soldiers. A young Crazy Horse witnessed it all, and the event stoked his distrust of white people.

5.   A Vision Quest Guided Crazy Horse’s War Strategy.

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Crazy Horse was not a traditionalist with regard to his tribe’s customs, shrugging off many of the traditions and rituals that the Sioux practised.

It was common for young men of the plains tribes to seek visions, which were something like instructions to fulfilling one鈥檚 destiny.

In 1854, Crazy Horse rode off into the prairies for a vision quest, purposefully ignoring the required rituals.

Fasting for 4 days, Crazy Horse had a vision of an unadorned horseman who directed him to present himself in the same way, with no more than one feather and never a war bonnet.

He was also told to toss dust over his horse before entering battle and to place a stone behind his ear and directed to never take war trophies to avoid harm.

He followed the instructions for the rest of his life and it is said with only one exception Crazy Horse was never injured in ensuing wars.

6.  Crazy Horse Battle Glories were a Result of America’s Lust for Gold.

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The U.S. government broke many of the treaties it signed with Native Americans because it was hungry for gold.

In 1863, explorer John Bozeman blazed a trail to Montana’s goldfields through Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe territory that an 1851 treaty made off-limits to whites.

Colorado militiamen murdered more than 200 peaceful Cheyenne, the majority of whom were women and children.

In the years following, Native American tribes began seeking revenge against white soldiers who failed to respect treaties.

On December 21, 1866, Captain William Fetterman led about 80 men from Wyoming’s Fort Phil Kearny, a garrison built to protect white emigrants and gold seekers.

Crazy Horse planted decoys along their route the soldiers fell for the trick and were ambushed by 1000 warriors. All of the U.S. soldiers were killed.

7.  He was an Excellent Military Strategist and Resistance Leader.

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In 1876, the U.S. Department of War ordered all Lakota onto reservations. Crazy Horse refused.

Instead, he led 1500 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors in a battle against Brigadier General George Crook, whose men were attempting to approach Hunkpapa Lakota chief Sitting Bull鈥檚 encampment at Little Bighorn.

The battle was a strategic victory for Crazy Horse as it sent Crook’s army packing and deprived George Custer鈥檚 Seventh Cavalry of much-needed reinforcements.

Had Crazy Horse failed, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which followed shortly after, may have turned out differently.

8.      He was starved to Surender.

After the Battle of the Little Bighorn, two of the battle鈥檚 primary leaders鈥擲itting Bull and Gall left for Canada.

 Crazy Horse remained in America a life-changing decision.

At the time, Colonel Nelson A. Miles was hellbent on forcing all Native Americans onto reservations.

in the winters of 1876 and 1877  Miles hit the Lakota where it hurt by decimating  Buffalo herds making things especially hard for Crazy Horse鈥檚 people.

 After a long period of cold and hunger, Crazy Horse surrendered. He was sent to a reservation at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.

9. Crazy Horse was not his First Given Name.

Born around 1840 to Lakota parents, Crazy Horse was originally named Cha-O-Ha, or Among the Trees.

 His mother, however, insisted on calling him 鈥淐urly.鈥�

 When Cha-O-Ha reached maturity, he was given the name held by his father and grandfather Ta-Sunko-Witko, or Crazy Horse. His father then took the name Worm.

10. Crazy Horse Died of Stabbing.

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In September 1877, Crazy Horse left the reservation without permission. His wife had become ill and he had attempted to take her to her parents.

Fearing that the warrior might return to battle, General Crook ordered him arrested. During his arrest, Crazy Horse struggled, and a soldier thrust a bayonet into his body.

 It was a fatal blow. As Crazy Horse bled, he was offered a cot, but he turned it down. He died on the floor.

His body was taken away by the Sioux and buried at an unknown location near a creek called Wounded Knee.

The Oglala tribe, a branch of the Sioux nation were key in the resistance against European settlement in North America.

Crazy horse was the leader of the resistance. He fought for the independence of his people and their natural resources.

He was fiercely focused that some of his people wearied of war, turned against him.

Chief Crazy Horse lived and died a hero and will always be remembered.