"I will return in stone"

Today is the Anniversary of the passing of Oglala War Chief Crazy Horse (Thašuŋka Witko) {Native Americans traditionally do not like to speak of the dead, however there are few records that can confirm the birth of this last pristine generation of Native Americans therefore I will deign to the overwhelming importance of the influence.}He was born into a world that was completely different at the time of his death. He distinguished himself as a young warrior and even though he was not a peacetime chief his bravery and daring helped to distinguish him as a great war chief. Throughout his life he was also considered to be a spiritual healer and medicine man who was prone to see vision, this fact helped to solidify a following of devoted “Dogsoldiers”[the dogsoldiers were a radical spiritual warrior sect that was devoted to self sacrifice to ensure the safety of the tribe] that would follow him into battle at the Battle of Red Buttes, the Platte River Bridge Station Battle, Wagon Box Fight, Red Cloud's War, on the Boseman trail, Battle of the Rosebud, And of course the great Sioux Wars culminating in the Battle of Little Big Horn. After his people were forced into starvation Crazy horse made a choice to live in a camp near the Red Cloud Agency, located near Camp Robinson, Nebraska. In protest to the mistreatment of his people Crazy horse left many times however he was arrested and put into jail at the news of Chief Joseph leaving a reservation with his people in Washington. At one point in the middle of the night he was dragged from his cell and pulled into the front of the jail and bayoneted in his back while his arms were being held his body was turned over to his parents and taken to an undisclosed location on the Sioux reservation. He was reported to have been around 37years old, there are no known and verifiable photos of him in existence.