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When I think back of the stories that I have heard about how the

Native American Indians were driven from their land and forced to live

on the reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event

is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It is one of the few times that

the Oglala Sioux made history with them being the ones who left the

battlefield as winners. When stories are told, or when the media

dares to tamper with history, it is usually the American Indians who

are looked upon as the bad guys. They are portrayed as savages who

spent their time raiding wagon trains and scalping the white settlers

just for fun. The media has lead us to believe that the American

government was forced to take the land from these savage Indians. We

should put the blame where it belongs, on the U.S. Government who

lied, cheated, and stole from the Oglala forcing Crazy Horse, the

great war chief, and many other leaders to surrender their nation in

order to save the lives of their people.

In the nineteenth century the most dominant nation in the western

plains was the Sioux Nation. This nation was divided into seven

tribes: Oglala’s, Brule’, Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow, Two Kettle,

and the Blackfoot. Of these tribes they had different band. The

Hunkpatila was one band of the Oglala’s (Guttmacher 12). One of the

greatest war chiefs of all times came from this band. His name was

Crazy Horse.

Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date in the

fall of 1841. He was born of his father, Crazy Horse an Oglala holy

man, and his mother a sister of a Brule’ warrior, Spotted Tail. As

the boy grew...