 The Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States Image by Self-created photograph by Jonathunder
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Horse CrazyCrazy Horse Crazy Horse Lakota war leader (c. 1840–1877) For other uses, see Crazy Horse (disambiguation). 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. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by White American settlers on Native American territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles of the Black Hills War on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman Fight in 1866, in which he acted as a decoy, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, in which he led a war party… (Source: Wikipedia)
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