Crazy Horse
Oglala Sioux chief
Crazy Horse was an Oglala Lakota war leader who resisted U.S. expansion into tribal lands during the 1860s and 1870s.
He helped defeat Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
He was killed while in U.S. custody in 1877.
His name has attached to a famous memorial carved into a South Dakota mountain and to various bars and clubs, most notably a Parisian cabaret.
Lakota Sioux division
- SiouxPlains Indigenous nation
- Black HillsForested Dakota mountains
- Pine RidgeNative American reservation
- Sitting BullLakota spiritual leader
Red Cloud · Great Plains · Wounded Knee · Little Bighorn · Native American · tipi · bison · vision quest
Mounted military force
- warhorseSeasoned campaigner or mount
- CusterCavalry officer, 1876 defeat
- coupAbrupt seizure of power
- war partyGroup assembled for attack
tomahawk · war bonnet · shield · bow · lance · scalp · raid · ambush
Thing preserving remembrance
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- iconPictorial screen symbol
legend · hero · inspiration · namesake · tribute · remembrance · symbolism · oral tradition
Open resistance to authority
- treaty violationBreaking a formal agreement
- land rightsLegal claims to territory
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- U.S. ArmyAmerican land military branch
broken treaties · forced relocation · freedom · surrender · assassination · martyrdom · territorial defense · Indian Wars
Ability to see
- medicine manTraditional indigenous healer
- protective charmObject meant to safeguard
- hailstoneFrozen precipitation sphere
- lightningAtmospheric electrical discharge
mysticism · sacred · thunderbird · dragonfly · prophecy · humility · simplicity · spirit world
Oglala
Lakota Sioux division
- SiouxPlains Indigenous nation
- Black HillsForested Dakota mountains
- Pine RidgeNative American reservation
Sitting Bull · Red Cloud · Great Plains · Wounded Knee · Little Bighorn · Native American · tipi · bison · vision quest · buffalo robe
cavalry
Mounted military force
war party · tomahawk · war bonnet · shield · bow · lance · scalp · raid · ambush · war paint
memorial
Thing preserving remembrance
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
icon · legend · hero · inspiration · namesake · tribute · remembrance · symbolism · oral tradition · historical figure
defiance
Open resistance to authority
- treaty violationBreaking a formal agreement
- land rightsLegal claims to territory
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
U.S. Army · broken treaties · forced relocation · freedom · surrender · assassination · martyrdom · territorial defense · Indian Wars · autonomy
vision
Ability to see
- medicine manTraditional indigenous healer
- protective charmObject meant to safeguard
- hailstoneFrozen precipitation sphere
lightning · mysticism · sacred · thunderbird · dragonfly · prophecy · humility · simplicity · spirit world · ceremonial
- Indigenous LeadersSitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Red Cloud, Tecumseh, Cochise
- Lakota ChiefsSitting Bull, Red Cloud, Big Foot
- Little BighornCuster, Sitting Bull, Sioux, Cheyenne, Lakota
- Sioux HeritageSioux, Lakota, Dakota, Oglala, Teton
- Sioux HistorySioux, Sioux Nation, Lakota, Oglala, Sitting Bull
- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
Crazy HorseWilliam Tecumseh Sherman
Crazy HorseGeorge Washington
Crazy HorseBuffalo Bill Cody
Kit Carson · manifest destiny · westward expansion · frontier settlers · pioneers
crazy, horse, horses, horseshoe, craziness, crazed, horseplay, horseman, horsepower