Visitors: New at Crazy Horse: The Crazy Horse Memorial free Summer Performance and Lecture Series with Native American themes is held in the Native American Educational and Cultural Center each Thursday evening through August 29. ...

Crazy Horse/Tashunkewitko, Oglala A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky. I was hostile to the white man...we preferred hunting to a life of idleness on our reservations. At times we did not get enough to eat and we were not allowed to hunt. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Soldiers came and destroyed our ...

CRAZY HORSE (Tashunka Witco, Tashunca-Uitco, his horse is crazy ). TRIBE: Oglala-Brule Sioux. BIRTH-DEATH: (ca. 1842-1877). Leader in the Sioux Wars of the 1860s-70s. Nephew of SPOTTED TAIL . CRAZY HORSE Crazy Horse was born along Rapid Creek near present-day Rapid City, South Dakota, to the east of Paha Sapa, the Black Hills. He was the son of an Oglala medicine man of the same name and his ...