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Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó[2] [tˣaˈʃʊ̃kɛ witˈkɔ], lit. 'His-Horse-Is-Crazy'; c. 1840 – September 5, 1877) [3] was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by White American settlers on Native American territory ...
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land. The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by ...
Chief Crazy Horse is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Victor Mature, Suzan Ball and John Lund. [2] The film is a fictionalized biography of the Lakota Sioux Chief Crazy Horse .
William Sampson Jr. (September 27, 1933 – June 3, 1987) was a Muscogee Nation painter, actor, and rodeo performer. He is best known for his performance as the apparently deaf and mute Chief Bromden in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Crazy Horse in the 1977 western The White Buffalo, as well as his roles as Taylor in Poltergeist II: The Other Side and Ten Bears in 1976's ...
The resulting fame, as well as his familiarity with the Black Hills, prompted several Lakota Chiefs, including Lakota elder Henry Standing Bear, to write to him about a monument honoring Crazy Horse. [1] Chief Henry Standing Bear wrote, "My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know the red man has great heroes, too." [2] [4]
Sitting Bull Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake Sitting Bull, c. 1883 Born Húŋkešni (Slow) or Ȟoká Psíče (Jumping Badger) c. 1831–1837 Grand River, Dakota Territory, U.S. Died December 15, 1890 (1890-12-15) (aged 58–59) Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Grand River, South Dakota, U.S. Cause of death Gunshot wound Resting place Mobridge, South Dakota, U.S. 45°31′1″N 100°29′7″W ...
Early years. Charles Howard was born, according to his enlistment record, in about 1842 in Rockingham County, Virginia. Little is known of his early life. He is probably the Charles Howard recorded in the 1870 census in Portsmouth, Ohio. [1] On June 16, 1875, Howard decided to enlist in the army, going into a recruiting office in Cleveland, Ohio.
Father, Black Buffalo (1760-1820), Mother, Good Voice Woman? Known for. Leader in the Wagon Box Fight and the Fetterman Fight, mentor to Crazy Horse. High Backbone also called Hump, or Canku Wakatuya (c. 1820-1870) was a Miniconjou Lakota military leader. He led troops in the Wagon Box Fight and the Fetterman Fight.