Crazy Horse :: Battle of the Little Big Horn

When I think back of the stories that I have hear about how theNative American Indians were driven from their area and forced to consist onthe reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event is theBattle of the bantam Big Horn. It is one of the few times that the OglalaSioux made history with them creation the ones who left the battlefield aswinners. When stories are told, or when the media dares to tamper withhistory, it is unremarkably the American Indians who are looked upon as the badguys. They are portrayed as savages who spent their time raiding wagontrains and scalping the white settlers honest for fun. The media has put up usto believe that the American government was forced to take the land fromthese savage Indians. We should put the blame where it belongs, on the U.S.Government who lied, cheated, and stole from the Oglala forcing worried knight,the great war chief, and many other leaders to surrender their dry land inorder to save the lives of their people. In the nineteenth century the approximately dominant nation in the westernplains was the Sioux republic. This nation was divided into septenary tribesOglalas, Brule, Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow, Two Kettle, and theBlackfoot. Of these tribes they had different band. The Hunkpatila was oneband of the Oglalas (Guttmacher 12). One of the greatest war chiefs of alltimes came from this band. His name was sick(p) Horse. Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date in the betide of1841. He was born of his father, Crazy Horse an Oglala holy man, and hismother a sister of a Brule warrior, Spotted Tail. As the boy grew olderhis pig was wavy so his people gave him the nickname of Curly (Guttmacher23). He was to go by Curly until the summer of 1858, after a battle withthe Arapahos. Curlys suffer charged against the Arapahos led his fatherto give Curly the name Crazy Horse. This was the name of his father and ofmany fathers before him (Guttmacher 47). I n the 1850s, the country where the Sioux Nation lived, was beinginvaded by the white settlers. This was upsetting for many of the tribes.They did not ascertain the ways of the whites. When the whites tore intothe land with plows and hunted the sacred buffalo just for the hides this