As Indian Country Today Media Network (ICTMN) summarizes, 23 activists lead by the United Native Americans advocacy group climbed 3,000 feet to the mountain’s summit and occupied it for several months, renaming it “Crazy Horse Mountain” after the Oglala Lakota Sioux commander who died in U.S. military custody in 1877
“Crazy Horse Mountain” after the Oglala Lakota Sioux commander who died in U.S. military custody in 1877
CRAZY HORSE! A man despised by the other Sioux chiefs. They met with General Crook and suggested CH be assassinated. Crook rejected their suggestion.
CH murdered over 400 civilians around the Black Hills.
He set over 200 sq miles of forest, plains, and coal fields on fire to throw Gen Crook off his trail.
After Little Big Horn, Gen Crook destroyed a Cheyenne village, and those tribesmen fled to CH’s village, Crazy Horse rejected them. Those Cheyenne then threw themselves on the mercy of Gen Crook and said they would scout for him AGAINST CRAZY HORSE!
The book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK by Bourke tells how Crazy Horse really died, it is not as you have been told by movies, and the other tribesmen did not seek revenge as he “died of his own violence”. To them it was good riddance to bad rubbish.
As usual, it was Eastern White men who later turned Crazy Horse into some type of martyr.