Person

Crazy Horse

c. 1840–1877 · 19th century · Also known as Tasunke Witko

Crazy Horse was an Oglala Lakota war leader who resisted American expansion onto the northern Plains. He fought in Red Cloud's War, at the Rosebud and, alongside Sitting Bull, in the defeat of George Armstrong Custer at the Little Bighorn in June 1876. He surrendered at Fort Robinson in 1877 and was killed there by a soldier's bayonet while being arrested.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Crazy Horse. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/crazy-horse
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