Crazy Horse
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- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers, Native Americans, American Indians, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Frontier, Pioneers, Massacres, Genocide, Torture
- Curriculum: American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American Indian History
Article abstract: Military significance: As a Lakota (Sioux) war leader, Crazy Horse participated in the Fetterman Massacre and led warriors in the defeat of George A. Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Crazy Horse’s life roughly paralleled the Lakotas’ struggle against U.S. expansion. Shortly after his birth, the first Oregon-bound wagons rumbled through Lakota hunting grounds, and by his death in 1877, railroads traversed Lakota lands, bison herds were decimated, and almost all Lakotas lived on reservations.
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