![]() Other versions of the legend posit that she was grief-stricken by the deaths of those she knew that her husband accused her of running off with her brother-in-law or that she had had affair with a European-American man. Rattling Blanket Woman's sister, Good Looking Woman, came to offer herself as a replacement wife, and stayed on to raise Crazy Horse. Waglula went into mourning for four years. ![]() When Waglula returned with the new wives, Rattling Blanket Woman, who had been unsuccessful in conceiving another child, thought she had lost favor with her husband and hanged herself. Corn's youngest daughter, Red Leggins, who was 15 at the time, requested to go with her sisters all became Waglula's wives. In gratitude he gave Waglula his two eldest daughters as wives: Iron Between Horns (age 18) and Kills Enemy (age 17). In 1844, while out hunting buffalo, Waglula helped defend a Lakota village under attack by the Crow. She was said to be beautiful and a fast runner. She may have been a member of either of the One Horn or Lone Horn families, leaders of the Miniconjou. The historian George Hyde wrote that Rattling Blanket Woman was Miniconjou and the sister of Spotted Tail, who became a Brulé head chief. Her younger sister was named Looks At It (born 1815), later given the name They Are Afraid of Her. Her older siblings were Lone Horn (born 1790, died 1877) and Good Looking Woman (born 1810). Rattling Blanket Woman or Tȟašína Ȟlaȟlá Wiŋ (1814–1844) was the daughter of Black Buffalo and White Cow (also known as Iron Cane). He saved Crazy Horse's life at least once and was with him when he died. Crazy Horse's cousin (son of Hewáŋžiča, Lone Horn) was Maȟpíya Ičáȟtagya ( Touch the Clouds). Another version of how the younger Crazy Horse acquired his name is that he took it after going through the haŋbléčheya ceremony. One account said that after the son had reached maturity and shown his strength, his father gave him his name and took a new one, Waglúla (Worm). She died when Crazy Horse was only four years old. His mother, Tȟašína Ȟlaȟlá Wiŋ ( Rattling Blanket Woman, born 1814), gave him the nickname Pȟehíŋ Yuȟáȟa (Curly Son/Curly) or Žiží (Light Hair) as his light, curly hair resembled her own. Crazy Horse was named Čháŋ Óhaŋ (Among the Trees) at birth, meaning he was one with nature. His father, born in 1810, was also named Tȟašúŋke Witkó (Crazy Horse). Immediate familyĬrazy Horse was born to parents from two different bands of the Lakota division of the Sioux, his father being an Oglala and his mother a Miniconjou. On the evening of his son's death, the elder Crazy Horse told Lieutenant H.R. Oral history accounts from relatives on the Cheyenne River Reservation place his birth in the spring of 1840. Among the Oglala winter counts, the stealing of 100 horses is noted by Cloud Shield, and possibly by American Horse and Red Horse owner, as equivalent to the year 1840–41. Ptehé Wóptuȟ’a ( Encouraging Bear), an Oglala medicine man and spiritual adviser to Crazy Horse, reported that Crazy Horse was born "in the year in which the band to which he belonged, the Oglala, stole One Hundred Horses, and in the fall of the year," a reference to the annual Lakota calendar or winter count. According to Šúŋka Bloká ( He Dog), he and Crazy Horse "were both born in the same year at the same season of the year," which census records and other interviews place in 1842. Sources differ on the precise year of Crazy Horse's birth, but most agree he was born between 18. Postal Service in 1982 with a 13¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.Ĭrazy Horse and his band of Oglala on their way from Camp Sheridan to surrender to General Crook at Red Cloud Agency Sunday, May 6, 1877. troops under General George Crook, Crazy Horse was fatally wounded by a bayonet-wielding military guard while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska. ![]() In September 1877, four months after surrendering to U.S. 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 to victory, earned him great respect from both his enemies and his own people. 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. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. Crazy Horse ( Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó, IPA:, lit.
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