My great grandmother was a child survivor of wounded knee. She fled South into Nebraska and was found in the barn of the Gosser Family, German immigrants from near Tionesta, Pennsylvania. The settlement there is named German Hill to this day. They were afraid to turn her in to the US Government, so, being she was fair haired and light skinned (which was also said about Crazy Horse) they adopted her, unofficially. Later, after drought and crop failure, they moved back to Pennsylvania. She met and married my great grandfather here. She didn't tell my grandmother until she was in advanced age and poor health. She said she was Oglala Lakota and that she was just an infant at the battle of the greasy grass, the defeat of Yellow Hair. My first time traveling west, when we got to the black hills, the paha sapa, I felt something stir within me that I had never felt before. Like I belonged, I had come home. I also made it a point to visit the medicine wheel in the Bighorn Mountains where Sitting Bull was given the vision of soldiers falling into camp, a sign of the overwhelming victory ahead. I felt a palpable energy there as well. It was unexplainable, yet a most wonderful experience.
Paha Sapa is the white translation for what THEY call them, "black hills". We know them as He Sapa, "black mountain", because, well, they're mountains.
Crazy Horse was many things to his people; a Leader, a Seeker, a Seer, a Warrior, an envoy of Hope ………. But above all, he was a custodian of the land, and a legate of spirituality.
Men and women like him were put here to remind us not to fear but to stand up against evil and opression.thank you Crazy Horse you are still an inspiration even outside your community.May your people run free on the land of your ancestors and preserve the values that tell us apart from people disguised as human but without humanity.
I’m mostly Irish and German but, I am also Cherokee. I’ve always been very proud of that. I have a deep respect for the earth, a connection with animals both wild and domesticated and have tried my best to respect others, even those who are different than me. It really saddens me when I think about the current condition of our country, both with the state of the land and the people. There is so much wisdom that all Native Americans possess. You can feel it in your heart when they speak. They think about what they are going to say and when it isn’t necessary to say something, they don’t. Without the preservation of these people and their heritage, all that wisdom will be lost. That’s something that really needs to be thought about. I pray that they continue to endure and thrive and that we can rebuild this land together. Because we will never do it divided. Rest In Peace Crazy Horse. A warrior who continues to ride through the plains of the spirit world.
One of the greatest human beings that ever existed. A man of honor, protector of the poor, weak, and orphaned. His word was his greatest asset and not to be used to deceive or steal. Crazy Horse will be an icon for generations upon generations!
Excellent film. Nobody seems to remember, in these turbulent times, when so many voices are calling for justice, nobody seems to remember the stories told here. To say that this is sad, doesn’t even scratch the surface.
@@kiarasekliw4250 If ever get time I want visit where where crazyhorse lived I always admired his spirit nobody knows what he looks like Hollywood don't tell the truth he was bigger in life can you tell me where to go
Floatie I remember my dad and my family were at the museum of crazy horse in South Dakota and he got mad that he couldn’t take pictures of his own great great great grandfather 😂
You would think the US army had endured enough killing and suffering during the Civil War. I have so much respect for Crazy Horse, He will always be remembered as being perhaps the greatest Chief spiritual, respectful, and fearless.
The US didnt go west to kill. They went to the West to live peacefully, to farm, to travel west and were murdered, tortured having rheir good stolen, children roasted alive and mutilated. History isn't what Hollywood says it is. It is much more complex. There's a reason all the others tribes helped the US fight other tribes. Now all those Natives live comfortably, they aren't dying of starvation at the avg death age of 31 anymore. The noble savage is a myth.....it was brutal back then, life was.awful compared to what the white man offered.
Excellent film. Nobody seems to remember, in these turbulent times, when so many voices are calling for justice, nobody seems to remember the stories told here. To say that this is sad, doesn’t even scratch the surface.
It is sad to see what became of such a strong culture of people living with the land and respecting everything nature had to offer, even down to thanking and apologizing to a deer for killing it for survival (now animal slaughter is an Industry not a necessity) now the modern Natives Americans have integrated and become part of the world that destroyed that way of life, it happened all over the world like the Aboriginals and the African tribes, all forced Into the white man's ideal of how things should be, now look at the world. Devoid of all what was deemed good. Kali yuga is here
You know, as a white, 33 year old north Dakotan, the first time I went to the black hills, i felt like I was home too. I absolutely felt the great spirit, and I can't wait to return. I haven't traveled much, and I don't care to, as I already know that the Black Hills is my favorite place on earth
I think that Crazy Horse knew late in his life that the tide of white farmers and prospectors could not be halted. He was a brave soul who dedicated his life to his people. May he forever be remembered.
He's a hero of all time in the Native American history. He dares to say 'NO' to the the oppressors, the liars, the cheaters who took their land and slaughtered their people.
@@jchanmcsewell stick around open your eyes , because the current occupation of north America is being replaced by every kind of third world invader, replacing and erasing the history of the white European settlers. They have become lazy, ignorant, and secular. Their greed, the same greed the pushed the settlers west, THEIR GREED WILL BE THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION 👍 😱
Custer was warned many times by his scouts and even by General Terry that the camp was huge and yet he attacked anyway. In all honesty, he deserved what he got.
Mike Alstott Custer was an egomaniac and his stupid wife encouraged him. He certainly did get what he deserved, just a shame he took so many with him, both Indian and white. Sad time for American history. Ride through the skies on your war horse forever, Crazy Horse!
He wasnt a "leader" in any sense of having authority. Indeed he flatly refused such a role. He wanted no part of the politics it entailed. He was a leader by example however and his mere presence on a battlefield strengthened the hearts of the other warriors riding into combat with him. If you really want to know more i HIGHLY recommend the series done on him in the "history on fire" podcast. You will be glad you took the time out to listen. Its about 8 hours total and it went by far to quickly imo.
@@brandonwb1973 Thank you, I'll check out that History on Fire podcast. BTW I have the same birthday as Crazy Horse, Dec. 4th. I always felt a connection to him. Thanks again.
@@sunnyboy4553 Crazy Horse was born in December? Wow.. It's too convoluted to explain. Still have never heard of a December child ever be anything but themselves no matter what the world demanded. Mine the 11 th
We see the native American Indian, forgotten today. They kept all of us alive , they helped us survive. In return, we killed off their main food supplies, just wasted the buffalo. Then we took his best land, and gave him the desert wastelands. We used our guns to kill them, and we massacred them by the thousands. We gave them disease that nearly wiped them out, alcohol, that nearly destroyed them... And yet they remain humble, they do not whine, they dont protest.... AND THEY ARE THE ONLY GROUP THAT HAS A RIGHT TO! To everyone.... take a lesson here.
Lol what the hell do you mean they are the only ones with the right to protest when practically every non-white citizen of America has a story to tell?
The Americans have taken lands from all indigenous peoples from the day that Christopher Columbus first stepped foot on what is now the Bahamas until today. Crazy Hose should not be forgotten for taking a stand for his people and their land.
I always get goose bumps when i hear about Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull and the Lakota people of that time. Especially when I see the Black Hills. I feel like I was incarnated among them in a past life.
i live in Scottsbluff in western Nebraska, its sits by the North Platte river. I walk whats left of the prairie out by Scottsbluff National Monument, i read some where that he would come here as felt it was a holy place. Every time i am out there i think of him and of his people, every time. My admiration for him stems from what i perceive is his willingness to lay it out all in a line for his people for what he loved and believed. This world, this modern world and this civilization is not how it is supposed be. We are embers being dropped into a river that has spilled over its banks.
In the beginning he describes whenever he comes back to the Black Hills as a sense of coming home. We natives out here in southern California get that feeling too, for our ancestral lands. The world has changed but we are still connected. We'll always be here.
It’s a connection from our Creator. We are intwined with our lands upon Mother Earth. I feel it when I stand on our sacred lands. We are one with the land. It’s why…I shall have a “ green burial”. No white man burial as I will give honor and thanks to Mother. She has nourished me during my lifetime. I hope to be placed near a tree person. Where my remains will go back to Mother to nourish her. My gratitude for nourishing me. ❤️🌹
I'm anishnawbe kwe and I truly love and back my people, we will never surrender! Crazy horse was ahead of his time, he was creative, and a great warrior. Ahow!
My tears of heartbreak too soil the land, just as my blood stains the rivers, for I was there during this pivotal time, in a number of past lives. And to those of you who cry too, perhaps you shared those days of tribulation amongst the native tribes around the lakes, or on the prairies. These losses were devastating on all levels, and a reminder of the sharp contrast between how to live harmoniously according to the spiritual laws of the Great Spirit, and how to become a rapacious beast and destroy the land. and fellow human beings, and animals. And this is why many prophecies came to us at this time, for it was a warning of the direst consequences if man continued to surrender to the ways of the white man, namely greed, gluttony and lust. Now look around you, and do you not see the gathering storms of many an evil fruit that hath been sown by 'the ways of the white men' that have their roots in the soil of Darkness. The Great Spirit can only help man if he permits him to, by changing his ways once again to the 'ways of the spirit'. And Crazy Horse above all else brought this message to the Lakota and others, for those who are prepared to listen for once to the pain and disenchantment of their spirits, which call them back to the Light! Do not deny these tears and the pain that call you back to the fold of the Great Spirit, but hastily begin to work as Light Warriors, who serve the highest virtues, and bring healing to mankind and the earth. Amen!
@leeuwin1962 brilliant. Of course indigenous people killed, took slaves ect. Humans being humans. The thing is, indigenous people revered and respected the land. Unlike what is happening since European people showed up claiming everything was now theirs.
We cannot think of the Dakotas or the Black Hills without thinking of you Tasunke Witko.............We Love you and will always know that this is YOUR Land.............
I can't say why but I have felt Crazy Horse sometimes in my life. He is an important person to me. His body was separated from his spirit but his spirit lives on. I wish his people well.
Thank you. I felt a great sadness inside me for what the Lakota ... and all of us, have lost in the decimation of the Nations who lived in and revered the land we now call the USA. I also experienced an overwhelming wonder and admiration for the people and the true Greatness of Crazy Horse and his contemporaries. It leaves me with a sorrow for what the settlers and the Government took and relentless struggle of the people to keep what God or the Great Spirit had given them.
I love that there are those that can pass these stories on. Nice that they are now recorded but it would mean so much if others were learning and passing on the oral history.
I am also from mixed people. I’m 17/32 native, Lakota and Oneida. The white & Indian marriages mostly happened 5 generations ago in just about every branch of my family. Fur trappers, explorers, soldiers, traders, etc all took Indian wives.
"They thought they can burry us,but we are seeds!" My heart crys for all the inative American tribes,They may kill the bodies but never their spirits! Time to take a stand and come together!
i have no words for how much i respect Crazy Horse and what he lived and died for. I hope to one day visit and walk the land he fought for, to pay my respects to him and also his people. His story has changed my life.
@@raulrodriguez5073 I am interested to hear the story from the perspective of Crow, Pawnee and Arikara. Lakota slaughter them by thousands over the decades they took the black hills from crow and then called it their most sacred place.. Cheyenne also made war on other tribes mercilessly killing everyone cutting childerens hands of and making neacklaces from fingers. Then the 1500 Lakota attack on a pawnee village at massacre canyon: 71 Pawnee warriors were killed, and 102 women and children killed", the victims brutally mutilated and scalped and even set on fire" yet all i ever hear and see how Lakota where the noble and graceful justice warriors.. and they lived in peaceful garden of eden before the whites came, only one narrative all the time.
@@boxergamez6775 I worked in Billings, Montana for about 6 to 8 months..was told to never mention the Sioux, Lakota to any Crowe too much animosity even today...but yes it would be interesting..The Mexica Indian (Aztecs) did the same to other tribe which is how the Spanierds were able to form alliance with them to defeat the Aztecs and conquer Mexico..
I have a cow head scull in my home hanging on the wall with Crazy Horse wrote on it and I’m very proud and honored to have it !! I’m not full blooded Indian but when I think of these people I think ( Real people) !!
I learned about him in school in history class it was a great sad story but it had some meanings he will never be forgotten because he is a great man of power.
Very moving film. Wopila! I've met some great native elders here in Ontario, Canada. Their influence on me, a settler, is positive and unending. I have not met people in my settler culture who are like very deep, very virtuous people such as Tasunke Witko. Only one settler person here, only one. We are an undeveloped people always hunting for more- we are The Ones Who Go Crazy For Gold. I support Chase Iron Eyes and those who held their ground at Standing Rock. And I met Orval Looking Horse once here in Canada, the privilege of a lifetime.
Great documentary about an absolute heroic legend in every sense of the word Here is a man worthy of adoration, ultimate respect, Love and Learning, Personally i would rather my kid looked up to a person such as this Than some latest pop or movie star etc.
And the spirit of Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Black Kettle, the list should go on. All were betrayed by the US, amounts to systematic genocide, a crime against humanity! Nothing much seems to have changed for the good of all on this planet since the days of Crazy Horse.
We cannot change the past, perhaps we can change the present and future. I am intrigued by the the landscape thumbnail attached to the video. On first glance I could swear it depicted Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges South Australia. On second I realised it does not but is incredibly similar. Where exactly exists such a landscape double? An answer could make spiritual sense to me. Thanks and best regards.
CRAZY HORSE....Ridin' the Wind so free. A Warrior of Great Strength, Wisdom, Humility, Love @ Harmony. "Wakan-Tanan Kici Un" 🐺 May the Great Spirit Bless You
All my relations, we humbly thank you for walking this world for a while and teaching and protecting the people. We thank you for all you gave, for all u endured and all you preserved. Without you we would not be here. Walk in power, walk with the ancestors now your work is done. All my relations, one nation!
Ive been to the Black Hill and its so beautifull i could the sacred energy of every thing around me my late boyfreind took to feild there we sat on large rock just looking then bull buffalo and his herd appeared the sound of thousands heart beats this was so inspiring this was first time seeing a wild buffalo ill never forget it
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Yes, I'm Lakota and whenever I come to the Black hills I don't want to leave because i feel like I'm home. Also a few times I felt the deep sorrow of my ancestral people...the woman who whose burden is the family. To me, Crazy Horse was the last free Sioux man. He was a trailblazer.
I stand in awe of Crazy horse He was a mighty warrior!! May He Ride across the sky Counting Coup on his Enemies and Hunt in the great Hunting Grounds forever!! Much respect!!
And his coming and that of the final judgement describes, as you rightly said, a circle, for every beginning must have an end. This is why the times are precarious due to the mostly dark and wrong actions and thoughts taken by men, which must be atoned for, and a new awakening result from the ensuing pain of the karmic effects. If this does not occur, then mankind could and will be be lost, so yes, we need the return of all past heroes who may help sway the battle towards the light, for the salvation of men, and the earth, which has become a sty due to man's fall.
@johanna maynard It is already written that many will not awaken in time as the years of the sifting beckon, and thus this time is a period of separation, for many have fallen unto the sleep of death, whilst some can be awoken, although only usually through great suffering, which will soon avail the earth in abundance. And you are right, in that the great cycle is being closed through a blessed place in Europe, where one day Crazy Horse will stand, beside a Great Comet that comes from the East, before encircling the earth...until finally it too stands majestically over the Holy Mountain. Its power brings the end of the Final Judgement, raising waters high, cracking mountains, and inciting men to deeds of madness, including nuclear holocausts, thus bringing to life all evils that lay hidden within men's souls, for all that is dead shall be awakened! Thus, darkness will destroy darkness. Let us pray that we are not found wanting. Blessed Be!!!
Hoka Hey!,,, He was one of the greatest to walk this land,, A true human. We should all seek to walk in his ways. respect, Aho mitakuye oyasin! wast'e yu'wast'e...RAM
MrRyanmcmahon Poor tacticia, by breaking up into smaller bands and avoiding major confrontations after Little Big Horn, the Sioux could have lasted longer. 😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑
My Friend, LeRoy Tyon, Thick Clown Horse, is a great grand nephew of Crazy Horse. He wrote a book called "The Unrelented : The Untold Story of Crazy Horse"
I roam the wilderness, I hunt off the land and thank it, I fast in isolation... I have not seen the vision yet. But I am always open.... Crazy Horse is a great inspiration to me!
As a boy growing up in the 60’s I hunted along with my father and brother in the Black Hills near Hullet Wyoming... I knew the minute i started hunting in this area it was a sacred place..we would see 50-60 deer a day, sage hens and wild turkey everywhere every stream full of trout..the land was so beautiful and so full of game we knew right away why this place was so special for the native Americans..now today over 75% of all wild animals and fish are gone from this earth..since 1970 we have lost 3/4 of all the wildlife...my God forgive us..
I found a great book about General George Custer’s accounts written by a one-time author. But.. here in the lands of the southern Utes, our stories are centered around Chief Ouray, the wonderful leader who was forced to ride the train with his best warriors to Washington D.C. to negotiate the lands and hopes the Ute tribes ..who were trouble makers supposedly. Ouray would have to do his best to save his people But.... Chief Ouray was famous after President Lincoln met with him. But ...The southern Utes were put into the reservation spaces we now know in Ignacio, Colorado. (Ouray became the name of a mining town, where I worked for a German couple at their lodge as a teenager. And...Chief Ouray was handsome. Chipeta..his wife, was honored a lot in Western Colorado for being his faithful partner. (Thanks for this lovely documentary on Crazy Horse who was said to be truly magnificent! ) Famous author, and film maker, Larry McMurtry I believe wrote solely about Crazy Horse in one of his books I read about a great horseman and Lakota spiritual leader. Thanks for your message.
"They made us many promises, more than I can remember. They broke them all but one. They promised to take our land and they took it." Chief Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Sioux, December, 1890.
Was the authors name Karl may he was from Dresden so was my grandma as for the lands there all gone identedy it's gone and look what's going on now we need the cruseders back just like here Geronimo mangus coloradus chochise black elk sitting bull craczy horse and on andon
I see these mountains and I feel like I'm home. My body is born in Europe, but the heart in Paha Sapa. The teachings of the Mother of the Earth and the nation of Lakota give me power on my way through life. I believe I will see Paha Sapa in this life, attracting me as a magnet.
Beautiful and very historical souls who guides us my ancestors are from there and my ancestors speak to me through the land flute plays and brings my heart to a great place in the lands of our ancestors.God Bless you and thank you 🙏 for crazy horse information. The picture of Crazy Horse is a great likeness. Thank you 😊 about his ability to grow in his life time being that he knew what brought his spirit and wisdom in his soul after taking his walk , always learning about his dreams coming true!
Beautifully made film, telling the story of the most famous of all the Lakota warrior leaders and protectors of his peoples ways and their right to exist as a free people.
Even if they were eating human flesh, NONE was authorised to come and take their land and lifestyle from them under the lie of "bringing civilisation." Who was ever asking for it? Look at all the once strong and self-sufficent nations all over the world who were "brought civilisation." (Eventhough this is the way mankind works.)
From childhood I was always attracted to everything that was Indian and strange is that I even adopted a nickname, my friends treated me during adolescence by Shane. In all the children's games, where we recreated Indian scenes I always assumed the Indian role, later I researched everything that was connected with Indian Nation and still today I listen Indian shaman music even driving. The Cheyenne nation seems to have been always part of my unconscious and every time I watch a documentary of this level all I vibrate without realizing well why. Well done, many thanks!
Ur spirit is.. "speakin to U".... Learn the Ways of the Medicine Wheel.. Respect Evry Nation.. Nvr Take more than U NEED... Live by Example.. Teach those BEHIND u 2 DO the SAME... Ur a Warrior n Ur own right.... ✌😎❤👍
Hoka hey!! Tasunke witko will never die, his spirit lives on forever in the Black hills.. I am ashamed that my people the tsoanontoan. did not stand and fight with the Lakota. in there defense they had already been beaten down and sold there souls and land to the whites... but I will always include in my prayers when in the Black hills. crazy horse 🏇
Greg Burgess no need to be ashamed of survival. You’re here because of the path they chose. Either tribes decision still had same result. If ALL the tribes across the country had communication and organization then you could have prevailed. I think they underestimated the inhumanity of their opponent. They should have seen what was happening with African enslaved people and understood. It’s always unimportant what happened to your neighbor until it happens to you... I was so hurt to learn what man the “five civilized tribes” civilized...
Every Chief nd Warrior.. from EVRY Tribe.. sacrificed THEIR lives in their own way..for the survival of the tribe... No shame in tht my brother... The pride of Native ppl..is the spirits of those who lived.. B4..us.. They live in US.... Go! Now. U go! Go nd live Ur life as an example to those who are coming BEHIND U....Teach Ur Language... Teach Ur Culture!.. Teach Ur Way of Life... thn.. Ur People will continue! Nd.. Ur pride and Ur memory will live on as well... GO! Go and Live... Go and Learn!... Go and Love....
@@resilience4lyfe331 hey sorry I just now seen your comment.very nice of you to say such good things about the native American peoples and, the five civilized tribes in which I am result of. I feel for all peoples of the world who have been terrorized by the groups who have the upper hand at any given moment in history. But you are right I am proud to be a part of it and I believe you are too it's great to be alive no matter what. Life is great, live it. 😊
@@karenbartlett1307 sorry to burst ur bubble but I am Seneca Iroquois part of the 6 nations. Not to mention I dont have, or NEED to explain to u what DNA runs through my blood.
@@karenbartlett1307my original comment wasn't directed to you in particular. I didn't know the earth revolved around Karen on UA-cam. Y do u need to be so negative??? Life is to short.
yes Crazy Horse was a loner .... never wanted fame but loved his people and lived and fought for them.... he did not want fame.... but for what he did for his people ..... he reflected in his being a loner and going off.... insight of what you really are ... which a lot of us could learn from....almost perfect human specimen ....
The Lakota won a court case involving the Black Hills, which was illegally stolen from them by the US gov't. But the gov't wouldn't give them back Paha Sapa, instead offered millions of dollars as a cash settlement. The Lakota People won't cash that check and have refused it for years, maintaining that they want the return of the Black Hills. I'd say they were honoring Crazy Horse and their sacred land, as well as the sacrifices their People have made through the years.
Karen , I love the fact that they don't take the black hills bribe, but why do Indians take monthly checks from the government and free housing on modern day reservations, free college tuition etc . Why turn down millions but take hundreds of dollars monthly ?
The Lakota won't ever get the Black Hills back.....The US government will drag it out in court for centuries if necessary, but they will never return the Black Hills. The money that the US govt offered them is still sitting in a bank account drawing interest...and last I heard was well over a billion dollars now. They should just take the money while they still can, and get out of the federal reservation system completely and learn to stand on their own two feet without always expecting the government to support them. But like slaves who have been held in bondage for so long, they may never be free and independent again. Blacks left the plantations for freedom....the Lakota need to be free of their reservations. If modern Sioux were allowed to live in the Black Hills, which they never did before, it wouldn't take very long for it to look like a city dump. If you doubt it...read the history of the Yellow Thunder Camp at Victoria Lake. Just FYI...I am an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and was born and raised in the Black Hills
@@davidmaclane5487 Then you should know that it's a matter of principle as to why they won't accept "the money". And you should know that "government support" of the Tribes is payment for land taken, not a "handout" as some suppose, and that reservations are all the Tribal land left. If they lose the land, they lose the Tribe and their own viability as a People. You should know these things. But maybe you just want a cut of "the money".
@@adamgraves5682 Because the checks from the US gov't are payment for land ceded by the Tribes. If they couldn't hunt, because their land was taken (and the game with it) then they had to have a way to eat. They used to be given "rations" in the way of payment, now it has evolved into checks, etc. They also needed shelter and eventually a way for some to get an education, to get out of poverty engendered by living on reservations and to help the People remaining on the rez. Btw, only members of federally recognized Tribes are entitled to these payments. The US gov't in the 1890's decreed that any Indians not willing to live on a reservation would be denied citizenship in their Tribe.
Even the Crow Indians say that Custer was killed down by the river and I even read one account where after the battle the Lakota went down to grab Custer's body and placed him along his brother who was up on the hill in order to tell them apart. That is one account I heard. Very interesting.
Mike Alstott , there was one thing they left out, the shirt they gave him was taken away because of the affair he had with the other mans wife. With that being said, he was a true warrior and really cared about his people. My wife and I went out to Montana back in 2016 and toured the battlefield. It was very moving and inspiring. Would love to do it again sometime.
In Australia the First Nation's sacred place was known by it's white man name, now it is known by it's closer traditional name, may the world come to know Tasunke Witko as the man that over shadowed Custer in the history books
Years back an uncle living in Texas started on the task of documenting our family history. He found written records and 1 tin back photo of my Great Grandmother , who was said to be the eldest daughter of Crazy Horses brother who reportedly was also a chief. I don't have his name nor was any recorded info available as it was a!l destroyed in a courthouse fire in Oklahoma where the Indian records were stored. Go figure. The info found was that she was a gift of Life for a Life. The story passed on said they were in a wagon train headed for the Oklahoma landrush when influenza hit and they were behind the last wagon of sick , stayed to care for those along with 2 other wagons. On their return to join the wagon train they came across an injured Indian boy. They cared for his sounds and nursed him back to health. He directed them to his father's camp , where the grateful father give the daughter for the return of his only son. This is a beautiful story whether trueor not , we can't confirm it , but the photo of her was striking. A black and white , of course , but her eyes stood out also as they appear very light to white. I have always been a rbel who has sought the Earth's comfort and spent as much time in nature as possible. Studied the art of healing herbs and nutrition that feeds the body not the mind. I searched thru many forms of natural healing during my hears of raising my children and raised them as close to thd an isn't path as I could. I was told my skull bones are indicative of Indian heritage , the way the are positioned and spaced. That was according to forensic science that was told to us in a high school assembly in 1969 , by a police detective! After the feds had been there previously and burned three tables of marijuana so we all knew what it smelled like cuz we has boys coming home from nam who had drug problems/needs. It was available the next day on smokers corner ! Go figure it saved our minds and lives from the constant lies and confusion of the day. Just look where the world is today , 7/21/2020. Even more bizzare !!!
this was beautiful mita kuye owasin waste chankpi opi forever are where i was raised and i follow crazy horses ways of life,also others like that of morning star/dull knife/littlewolf,are my people may we never forget what weve fought so hard to keep
caocaoli1 Please don't insult other people like that. l had to stick my foot in my mouth at times. Not with the insults, but to tell a few to stop with the claims to Native heritage. When you find out who they are and who their people are. Remember Natives have mixed with whites for years. And many natives were scattered .some never to know who they were. My blond green eyed friend found his grandparents, after his mum thinking she was Italian. sad,but happy for them. have a good.one mate.☺🇺🇸
My mother was taken from the rez when she was 7 I wasn't allowed to be Indian. Now I'm too white to be Indian and too dark to be white. I am a man without a nation
This may be misunderstood by many. I say this on the UA-cam which is a new medium to my people. I was reborn in the year 1952. I knew from age 2 years I should be a drummer. When I was 16 I played drums and learned from a friend Robert Drummond, Robert played drums with my father's band. Robert always called me "Crazy Horse" and referred to the Indian Wars. I went on to play drums professionally and will always be on the side of the Lakota Sioux.
@@suicidebysasquatch4873 I played the triangle in band when in 1st grade!! Now that I remember more teacher thought it was to important and took it offnme!!!! All these years later I still ye nightmares from that day I'm now 32yrs old😀😂🤘
My great grandmother was a child survivor of wounded knee. She fled South into Nebraska and was found in the barn of the Gosser Family, German immigrants from near Tionesta, Pennsylvania. The settlement there is named German Hill to this day. They were afraid to turn her in to the US Government, so, being she was fair haired and light skinned (which was also said about Crazy Horse) they adopted her, unofficially. Later, after drought and crop failure, they moved back to Pennsylvania. She met and married my great grandfather here. She didn't tell my grandmother until she was in advanced age and poor health. She said she was Oglala Lakota and that she was just an infant at the battle of the greasy grass, the defeat of Yellow Hair. My first time traveling west, when we got to the black hills, the paha sapa, I felt something stir within me that I had never felt before. Like I belonged, I had come home. I also made it a point to visit the medicine wheel in the Bighorn Mountains where Sitting Bull was given the vision of soldiers falling into camp, a sign of the overwhelming victory ahead. I felt a palpable energy there as well. It was unexplainable, yet a most wonderful experience.
Thank you for sharing your story.
Paha Sapa is the white translation for what THEY call them, "black hills". We know them as He Sapa, "black mountain", because, well, they're mountains.
@@robertvasilyev962 thank you for teaching me this. I want to learn as much as I can.
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Powerful lineage to say the very least. 💜
Crazy Horse was many things to his people; a Leader, a Seeker, a Seer, a Warrior, an envoy of Hope ………. But above all, he was a custodian of the land, and a legate of spirituality.
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Finally! Someone who understands Crazy Horse as I do.
Men and women like him were put here to remind us not to fear but to stand up against evil and opression.thank you Crazy Horse you are still an inspiration even outside your community.May your people run free on the land of your ancestors and preserve the values that tell us apart from people disguised as human but without humanity.
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may u see the Palestineans with the same lens you see the Native Americans..
I’m mostly Irish and German but, I am also Cherokee. I’ve always been very proud of that. I have a deep respect for the earth, a connection with animals both wild and domesticated and have tried my best to respect others, even those who are different than me. It really saddens me when I think about the current condition of our country, both with the state of the land and the people. There is so much wisdom that all Native Americans possess. You can feel it in your heart when they speak. They think about what they are going to say and when it isn’t necessary to say something, they don’t. Without the preservation of these people and their heritage, all that wisdom will be lost. That’s something that really needs to be thought about. I pray that they continue to endure and thrive and that we can rebuild this land together. Because we will never do it divided. Rest In Peace Crazy Horse. A warrior who continues to ride through the plains of the spirit world.
As a German I fully agree! Some of my best friends were Native Americans!
Beautifully stated.
I think Crazy Horse said “one cannot sell the land upon which the people walk “ . He and other great chiefs will never be forgotten
Is this a true documentary of Crazy Horse because I'm trying to learn
One of the greatest human beings that ever existed. A man of honor, protector of the poor, weak, and orphaned. His word was his greatest asset and not to be used to deceive or steal. Crazy Horse will be an icon for generations upon generations!
@@xxbobbyasheepxx9564 yes.
Excellent film. Nobody seems to remember, in these turbulent times, when so many voices are calling for justice, nobody seems to remember the stories told here. To say that this is sad, doesn’t even scratch the surface.
Crazy Horse was never a chief, never wanted to be one, what Crazy Horse was is a Great Warrior
R.I.P. to the greatest warriors who ever lived! Crazy horse, sitting bull and many others. Real American's at heart! We will always remember
yes RIP to my great great great great grandfather crazyhorse and his cousin sitting bull 🙏🏽
@@kiarasekliw4250 If ever get time I want visit where where crazyhorse lived I always admired his spirit nobody knows what he looks like Hollywood don't tell the truth he was bigger in life can you tell me where to go
My name Brandon Marcia is my mother
Floatie AHHH I’m related to him too. Weirdly he is my great greatgreat great grandfather too 😳
Floatie I remember my dad and my family were at the museum of crazy horse in South Dakota and he got mad that he couldn’t take pictures of his own great great great grandfather 😂
You would think the US army had endured enough killing and suffering during the Civil War. I have so much respect for Crazy Horse, He will always be remembered as being perhaps the greatest Chief spiritual, respectful, and fearless.
They used the civil war also to conquer the indigenous people.
The US didnt go west to kill. They went to the West to live peacefully, to farm, to travel west and were murdered, tortured having rheir good stolen, children roasted alive and mutilated. History isn't what Hollywood says it is. It is much more complex. There's a reason all the others tribes helped the US fight other tribes. Now all those Natives live comfortably, they aren't dying of starvation at the avg death age of 31 anymore. The noble savage is a myth.....it was brutal back then, life was.awful compared to what the white man offered.
@tarriegibson1193 No. They didn't.
Humility is what defines a leader, driven by bravery
Crazy Horse was the strongest of all the old chiefs. Never signed a treatee and never sat for a photo. Spirit is alive and strong! A-ho!
@erniebeavers7334 he was never a chief.
@erniebeavers7334 He never signed a treaty because he was never a chief. He was a highly respected warrior
He was never a chief, that is a Wasicu designation
Powerful and eye opening. Crazy horse is a true American hero. Much respect
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Excellent film. Nobody seems to remember, in these turbulent times, when so many voices are calling for justice, nobody seems to remember the stories told here. To say that this is sad, doesn’t even scratch the surface.
It is sad to see what became of such a strong culture of people living with the land and respecting everything nature had to offer, even down to thanking and apologizing to a deer for killing it for survival (now animal slaughter is an Industry not a necessity) now the modern Natives Americans have integrated and become part of the world that destroyed that way of life, it happened all over the world like the Aboriginals and the African tribes, all forced Into the white man's ideal of how things should be, now look at the world. Devoid of all what was deemed good. Kali yuga is here
You know, as a white, 33 year old north Dakotan, the first time I went to the black hills, i felt like I was home too. I absolutely felt the great spirit, and I can't wait to return. I haven't traveled much, and I don't care to, as I already know that the Black Hills is my favorite place on earth
I hope to go...
you and me both!
I think that Crazy Horse knew late in his life that the tide of white farmers and prospectors could not be halted. He was a brave soul who dedicated his life to his people. May he forever be remembered.
He's a hero of all time in the Native American history. He dares to say 'NO' to the the oppressors, the liars, the cheaters who took their land and slaughtered their people.
@@jchanmcsewell stick around open your eyes , because the current occupation of north America is being replaced by every kind of third world invader, replacing and erasing the history of the white European settlers. They have become lazy, ignorant, and secular. Their greed, the same greed the pushed the settlers west, THEIR GREED WILL BE THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION 👍
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Custer was warned many times by his scouts and even by General Terry that the camp was huge and yet he attacked anyway. In all honesty, he deserved what he got.
Learned his lesson, I'll bet.
Crazy Horse said he was foolish.
Mike Alstott Custer was an egomaniac and his stupid wife encouraged him. He certainly did get what he deserved, just a shame he took so many with him, both Indian and white. Sad time for American history. Ride through the skies on your war horse forever, Crazy Horse!
Custer was an arrogant fool and a murderer, his military record is a joke...and he wasn’t half the man Crazy Horse was
Custer attacked my great daddy at rummels farm house at Gettysburg he got whipped that day too I am glad crazy horse killed hi
I always felt adesire to know more about Crazy Horse. I admire him tremendously. He was a great leader, and a great human being. RIP Crazy Horse.
Wonder if took ability, lol
I mean medicine for schizophrenia
He wasnt a "leader" in any sense of having authority. Indeed he flatly refused such a role. He wanted no part of the politics it entailed. He was a leader by example however and his mere presence on a battlefield strengthened the hearts of the other warriors riding into combat with him. If you really want to know more i HIGHLY recommend the series done on him in the "history on fire" podcast. You will be glad you took the time out to listen. Its about 8 hours total and it went by far to quickly imo.
@@brandonwb1973 Thank you, I'll check out that History on Fire podcast. BTW I have the same birthday as Crazy Horse, Dec. 4th. I always felt a connection to him. Thanks again.
@@sunnyboy4553 Crazy Horse was born in December?
Wow..
It's too convoluted to explain.
Still have never heard of a December child ever be anything but themselves no matter what the world demanded.
Mine the 11 th
Crazy Horse will never be forgotten a true great warrior
We see the native American Indian, forgotten today. They kept all of us alive , they helped us survive. In return, we killed off their main food supplies, just wasted the buffalo. Then we took his best land, and gave him the desert wastelands. We used our guns to kill them, and we massacred them by the thousands. We gave them disease that nearly wiped them out, alcohol, that nearly destroyed them... And yet they remain humble, they do not whine, they dont protest.... AND THEY ARE THE ONLY GROUP THAT HAS A RIGHT TO! To everyone.... take a lesson here.
Crazy Horse and Sitting bull are my cousins
Lol what the hell do you mean they are the only ones with the right to protest when practically every non-white citizen of America has a story to tell?
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@@Rick-xy2le You must be very old
The Americans have taken lands from all indigenous peoples from the day that Christopher Columbus first stepped foot on what is now the Bahamas until today.
Crazy Hose should not be forgotten for taking a stand for his people and their land.
The crown did. Not americas
@@shebastinson7813The *Americans* are responsible *now* for this *on going crime in progress.*
The battle was fought on Crow land. The Crow were bitter enemies of the Lakota and some of them scouted for Custer.
Go fuck yourself. How ignorant are you?
All people have taken land. There isn't a group that hasn't
I always get goose bumps when i hear about Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull and the Lakota people of that time. Especially when I see the Black Hills. I feel like I was incarnated among them in a past life.
Crazy Horse is in my heart forever, and all his people may they live to be happy and old. Give love to Mother Earth and she will give love back.
i live in Scottsbluff in western Nebraska, its sits by the North Platte river. I walk whats left of the prairie out by Scottsbluff National Monument, i read some where that he would come here as felt it was a holy place. Every time i am out there i think of him and of his people, every time. My admiration for him stems from what i perceive is his willingness to lay it out all in a line for his people for what he loved and believed. This world, this modern world and this civilization is not how it is supposed be. We are embers being dropped into a river that has spilled over its banks.
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he defined the word BRAVE & WARRIOR !!!
@@sunofpeter2 beautifully expressed sad truth.🌹
@@mgmassey174 I forgot I wrote that, it's a variation of that line from Blade Runner, about how memories of us passing are like tears in the rain.
In the beginning he describes whenever he comes back to the Black Hills as a sense of coming home. We natives out here in southern California get that feeling too, for our ancestral lands. The world has changed but we are still connected. We'll always be here.
It’s a connection from our Creator. We are intwined with our lands upon Mother Earth. I feel it when I stand on our sacred lands. We are one with the land. It’s why…I shall have a “ green burial”. No white man burial as I will give honor and thanks to Mother. She has nourished me during my lifetime. I hope to be placed near a tree person. Where my remains will go back to Mother to nourish her. My gratitude for nourishing me. ❤️🌹
Why do I always get so emotional when I watch these documentaries.
So do I.. first I feel my emotions on my throat.. then the tears start flowing. It is so heartbreaking..
Respect for All INDIAN'S . WARRIORS for FREEDOM, LIVING LEGEND'S ❤️🔥❤️
I GOT THE HONOR TO HAVE A CERAMONAL SWEAT WIHT HIS GRANDSON. IT WAS THE GREATEST MOMENT I MY LIFE.THANK YOU MAKA
I just saw a documentary on Custer but being indigenous to Northern Mexico, my heart feels full when hearing about Crazy Horse and the Sioux.
I'm anishnawbe kwe and I truly love and back my people, we will never surrender! Crazy horse was ahead of his time, he was creative, and a great warrior. Ahow!
Crazy Horse HATED your people! Bitter enemies to the end.
I had a Ho-Chunk friend, her name was Rebecca LeGarde.
To this day, I have pain in my heart for the indians and the land that they were forced from. They lived in harmony with the land.
Very sad indeed. Just heartbreaking. My tears are for real.
My tears of heartbreak too soil the land, just as my blood stains the rivers, for I was there during this pivotal time, in a number of past lives. And to those of you who cry too, perhaps you shared those days of tribulation amongst the native tribes around the lakes, or on the prairies. These losses were devastating on all levels, and a reminder of the sharp contrast between how to live harmoniously according to the spiritual laws of the Great Spirit, and how to become a rapacious beast and destroy the land. and fellow human beings, and animals.
And this is why many prophecies came to us at this time, for it was a warning of the direst consequences if man continued to surrender to the ways of the white man, namely greed, gluttony and lust. Now look around you, and do you not see the gathering storms of many an evil fruit that hath been sown by 'the ways of the white men' that have their roots in the soil of Darkness. The Great Spirit can only help man if he permits him to, by changing his ways once again to the 'ways of the spirit'. And Crazy Horse above all else brought this message to the Lakota and others, for those who are prepared to listen for once to the pain and disenchantment of their spirits, which call them back to the Light! Do not deny these tears and the pain that call you back to the fold of the Great Spirit, but hastily begin to work as Light Warriors, who serve the highest virtues, and bring healing to mankind and the earth. Amen!
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@leeuwin1962 brilliant. Of course indigenous people killed, took slaves ect. Humans being humans. The thing is, indigenous people revered and respected the land. Unlike what is happening since European people showed up claiming everything was now theirs.
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Have you forgotten the Great Law? Something Europeans will never manage.
We cannot think of the Dakotas or the Black Hills without thinking of you Tasunke Witko.............We Love you and will always know that this is YOUR Land.............
I can't say why but I have felt Crazy Horse sometimes in my life. He is an important person to me. His body was separated from his spirit but his spirit lives on. I wish his people well.
Thank you. I felt a great sadness inside me for what the Lakota ... and all of us, have lost in the decimation of the Nations who lived in and revered the land we now call the USA. I also experienced an overwhelming wonder and admiration for the people and the true Greatness of Crazy Horse and his contemporaries. It leaves me with a sorrow for what the settlers and the Government took and relentless struggle of the people to keep what God or the Great Spirit had given them.
The whitemen ( the fallen ANGELS) are ALIANS from another planet. They came to EARTH and from then till NOW we the people( AFRICAN ,
ASIAN , INDIAN) have been living in HELL here on EARTH
I love that there are those that can pass these stories on. Nice that they are now recorded but it would mean so much if others were learning and passing on the oral history.
I'm from mixed people,this story is a heartbreaker.Crazy horse was/is/will be a hero...Love & Peace
I am also from mixed people. I’m 17/32 native, Lakota and Oneida. The white & Indian marriages mostly happened 5 generations ago in just about every branch of my family. Fur trappers, explorers, soldiers, traders, etc all took Indian wives.
@@tedecker3792 Yes, my ancestor was a French Canadian trapper who married an Indian woman in Ontario, Canada.
I’m only part Native American but I feel drawn to it more as I get older I cannot explain it but I do embrace it
This stuff really speaks to me. I truly love how Native American's respected nature and mother earth.
It's easy to respect it when you don't have the technology to destroy it
From Aotearoa , great warrior ! What a man ! Respect to The natives of the Americas , beautiful people of the lands .
"They thought they can burry us,but we are seeds!" My heart crys for all the inative American tribes,They may kill the bodies but never their spirits! Time to take a stand and come together!
We will accept The Black Hills return to The Chosen People, Thanks to The Most High Power.
i have no words for how much i respect Crazy Horse and what he lived and died for. I hope to one day visit and walk the land he fought for, to pay my respects to him and also his people. His story has changed my life.
You can start by donating all your belongings to any reservation and move to one a work for free the rest of your life...
@@raulrodriguez5073 I am interested to hear the story from the perspective of Crow, Pawnee and Arikara. Lakota slaughter them by thousands over the decades they took the black hills from crow and then called it their most sacred place.. Cheyenne also made war on other tribes mercilessly killing everyone cutting childerens hands of and making neacklaces from fingers. Then the 1500 Lakota attack on a pawnee village at massacre canyon: 71 Pawnee warriors were killed, and 102 women and children killed", the victims brutally mutilated and scalped and even set on fire" yet all i ever hear and see how Lakota where the noble and graceful justice warriors.. and they lived in peaceful garden of eden before the whites came, only one narrative all the time.
@@boxergamez6775 I worked in Billings, Montana for about 6 to 8 months..was told to never mention the Sioux, Lakota to any Crowe too much animosity even today...but yes it would be interesting..The Mexica Indian (Aztecs) did the same to other tribe which is how the Spanierds were able to form alliance with them to defeat the Aztecs and conquer Mexico..
@@boxergamez6775 and as were the other tribe almost decimated, there were few left to tell the story...so as they say the conquerors wrote history
@@raulrodriguez5073 that is true
I have a cow head scull in my home hanging on the wall with Crazy Horse wrote on it and I’m very proud and honored to have it !! I’m not full blooded Indian but when I think of these people I think ( Real people) !!
Crazy Horse was probably the bravest most honest person ever to live!
Every single native that was there are great.
When you see The Black hills remember me as a defender of the Lakota people. Crazy Horse. Awesome true American hero.
Not an American.
Thankyou
I learned about him in school in history class it was a great sad story but it had some meanings he will never be forgotten because he is a great man of power.
Very moving film. Wopila! I've met some great native elders here in Ontario, Canada. Their influence on me, a settler, is positive and unending. I have not met people in my settler culture who are like very deep, very virtuous people such as Tasunke Witko. Only one settler person here, only one.
We are an undeveloped people always hunting for more- we are The Ones Who Go Crazy For Gold. I support Chase Iron Eyes and those who held their ground at Standing Rock.
And I met Orval Looking Horse once here in Canada, the privilege of a lifetime.
The world would be a better place if we all lived as they did.. My ❤ goes out to u all..
That was very touching. Thanks to the uploader and even more the storytellers and producers for sharing this great human's story.
Great documentary about an absolute heroic legend in every sense of the word Here is a man worthy of adoration, ultimate respect, Love and Learning, Personally i would rather my kid looked up to a person such as this Than some latest pop or movie star etc.
long live the spirit of crazy horse
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And the spirit of Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Black Kettle, the list should go on.
All were betrayed by the US, amounts to systematic genocide, a crime against humanity!
Nothing much seems to have changed for the good of all on this planet since the days of Crazy Horse.
& may it be so.
Sadly your words are true brother..
We cannot change the past, perhaps we can change the present and future.
I am intrigued by the the landscape thumbnail attached to the video.
On first glance I could swear it depicted Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges South Australia.
On second I realised it does not but is incredibly similar.
Where exactly exists such a landscape double?
An answer could make spiritual sense to me.
Thanks and best regards.
There should be a monument to Crazy Horse in DC but nothing could be as grand as his Black Hills he Loved as his Spirit. HO!
CRAZY HORSE....Ridin' the Wind so free. A Warrior of Great Strength, Wisdom, Humility, Love @ Harmony. "Wakan-Tanan Kici Un" 🐺 May the Great Spirit Bless You
All my relations, we humbly thank you for walking this world for a while and teaching and protecting the people. We thank you for all you gave, for all u endured and all you preserved. Without you we would not be here. Walk in power, walk with the ancestors now your work is done. All my relations, one nation!
Pilamiyayelo! Wakan Tanka kici Un!...
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Lakota ❤️ people thank you 🙏
Ive been to the Black Hill and its so beautifull i could the sacred energy of every thing around me my late boyfreind took to feild there we sat on large rock just looking then bull buffalo and his herd appeared the sound of thousands heart beats this was so inspiring this was first time seeing a wild buffalo ill never forget it
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Historical fact only the comanches were more savage then the Lakota , just ask the crows lol
Yes, I'm Lakota and whenever I come to the Black hills I don't want to leave because i feel like I'm home. Also a few times I felt the deep sorrow of my ancestral people...the woman who whose burden is the family.
To me, Crazy Horse was the last free Sioux man. He was a trailblazer.
I stand in awe of Crazy horse He was a mighty warrior!! May He Ride across the sky Counting Coup on his Enemies and Hunt in the great Hunting Grounds forever!! Much respect!!
Everything that goes around, comes around. May his spirit and other great warriors return to help Mother Earth.
He has returned, along with many others of the Bird tribes, as prophesied, for the coming Final Judgement of Man!
And his coming and that of the final judgement describes, as you rightly said, a circle, for every beginning must have an end. This is why the times are precarious due to the mostly dark and wrong actions and thoughts taken by men, which must be atoned for, and a new awakening result from the ensuing pain of the karmic effects. If this does not occur, then mankind could and will be be lost, so yes, we need the return of all past heroes who may help sway the battle towards the light, for the salvation of men, and the earth, which has become a sty due to man's fall.
Crazy Horse has returned.
Crazy Horse is already here.
@johanna maynard It is already written that many will not awaken in time as the years of the sifting beckon, and thus this time is a period of separation, for many have fallen unto the sleep of death, whilst some can be awoken, although only usually through great suffering, which will soon avail the earth in abundance. And you are right, in that the great cycle is being closed through a blessed place in Europe, where one day Crazy Horse will stand, beside a Great Comet that comes from the East, before encircling the earth...until finally it too stands majestically over the Holy Mountain. Its power brings the end of the Final Judgement, raising waters high, cracking mountains, and inciting men to deeds of madness, including nuclear holocausts, thus bringing to life all evils that lay hidden within men's souls, for all that is dead shall be awakened! Thus, darkness will destroy darkness. Let us pray that we are not found wanting. Blessed Be!!!
they all speak so reverently, so calm...the background music matches their tone....listening to them speak and hearing the music is very soothing...
Beautiful man, beautiful people!
Hoka Hey!,,, He was one of the greatest to walk this land,, A true human. We should all seek to walk in his ways. respect, Aho mitakuye oyasin! wast'e yu'wast'e...RAM
MrRyanmcmahon Poor tacticia, by breaking up into smaller bands and avoiding major confrontations after Little Big Horn, the Sioux could have lasted longer. 😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑
Um, that is exactly what they did....
Hoka Hey!.... Love Crazy Horse... Brave, Stoic, a true leader!
MrRyanmcmahon --Lol
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My Friend, LeRoy Tyon, Thick Clown Horse, is a great grand nephew of Crazy Horse. He wrote a book called "The Unrelented : The Untold Story of Crazy Horse"
A warrior who did his job in his time.
Thanks for posting
I roam the wilderness, I hunt off the land and thank it, I fast in isolation... I have not seen the vision yet. But I am always open.... Crazy Horse is a great inspiration to me!
One could go his entire life without receiving a vision. Ikche wicasa - being a common man isn't so bad
absolutely wonderful !!!
As a boy growing up in the 60’s I hunted along with my father and brother in the Black Hills near Hullet Wyoming... I knew the minute i started hunting in this area it was a sacred place..we would see 50-60 deer a day, sage hens and wild turkey everywhere every stream full of trout..the land was so beautiful and so full of game we knew right away why this place was so special for the native Americans..now today over 75% of all wild animals and fish are gone from this earth..since 1970 we have lost 3/4 of all the wildlife...my God forgive us..
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A BEAUTIFUL STORY AND VERY WELL TOLD. HE WAS A GREAT MAN AND I WOULD OF LIKED TO MET HIM
Beautiful and heartbreaking video.
The difficult story of a pure and beautiful soul....If you go to the Black Hills alone, his voice can still be heard...on the wind.....
Amazing Story always was fascinated about the famous Indian..called Crazy Horse..his people and the land they so loved!!
Brilliant!! May His Spirit be in each one of us!! A true human being!!
what "human beings" should be !!!
A Salute to you "Crazy Horse" from a brother at arms. Warrior for my people.
I found a great book about General George Custer’s accounts written by a one-time author. But.. here in the lands of the southern Utes, our stories are centered around Chief Ouray, the wonderful leader who was forced to ride the train with his best warriors to Washington D.C. to negotiate the lands and hopes the Ute tribes ..who were trouble makers supposedly. Ouray would have to do his best to save his people But.... Chief Ouray was famous after President Lincoln met with him. But ...The southern Utes were put into the reservation spaces we now know in Ignacio, Colorado. (Ouray became the name of a mining town, where I worked for a German couple at their lodge as a teenager. And...Chief Ouray was handsome. Chipeta..his wife, was honored a lot in Western Colorado for being his faithful partner. (Thanks for this lovely documentary on Crazy Horse who was said to be truly magnificent! ) Famous author, and film maker, Larry McMurtry I believe wrote solely about Crazy Horse in one of his books I read about a great horseman and Lakota spiritual leader. Thanks for your message.
"They made us many promises, more than I can remember. They broke them all but one. They promised to take our land and they took it." Chief Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Sioux, December, 1890.
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So true . Andrew Jackson need his face off the $20 bill.
God bless Lakota and everyone of us in this timecorn19 can't change history as much we all want ✌ plz
Was the authors name Karl may he was from Dresden so was my grandma as for the lands there all gone identedy it's gone and look what's going on now we need the cruseders back just like here Geronimo mangus coloradus chochise black elk sitting bull craczy horse and on andon
I have always admired Crazy Horse! and always will! Thank you for this story of him!
As long as human beings learn about, teach others about and remember our ancestors they live among us.
He was truly a very heroic man.
I see these mountains and I feel like I'm home. My body is born in Europe, but the heart in Paha Sapa. The teachings of the Mother of the Earth and the nation of Lakota give me power
on my way through life. I believe I will see Paha Sapa in this life, attracting me as a magnet.
Great Soul....Great Spiritual Master...Crazy Horse!
The best documentary film I have ever seen!
Thank you for your sharing of this important man. Your quiet respect in the telling have helped me know what he represented.
WVislandia...simply well spoken...pilamaya
Beautiful and very historical souls who guides us my ancestors are from there and my ancestors speak to me through the land flute plays and brings my heart to a great place in the lands of our ancestors.God Bless you and thank you 🙏 for crazy horse information. The picture of Crazy Horse is a great likeness. Thank you 😊 about his ability to grow in his life time being that he knew what brought his spirit and wisdom in his soul after taking his walk , always learning about his dreams coming true!
Beautifully made film, telling the story of the most famous of all the Lakota warrior leaders and protectors of his peoples ways and their right to exist as a free people.
Even if they were eating human flesh, NONE was authorised to come and take their land and lifestyle from them under the lie of "bringing civilisation." Who was ever asking for it? Look at all the once strong and self-sufficent nations all over the world who were "brought civilisation."
(Eventhough this is the way mankind works.)
The way [[ they ]] want you to think.
Sitting Bull is actually known more... Thts the point of making THIS film.. To bring Tasuke Witko.. the Recognition that he rightly deserves....
GREAT WARRIOR!!!
R.I.P my Brother 🌻✌️
From childhood I was always attracted to everything that was Indian and strange is that I even adopted a nickname, my friends treated me during adolescence by Shane. In all the children's games, where we recreated Indian scenes I always assumed the Indian role, later I researched everything that was connected with Indian Nation and still today I listen Indian shaman music even driving.
The Cheyenne nation seems to have been always part of my unconscious and every time I watch a documentary of this level all I vibrate without realizing well why.
Well done, many thanks!
Ur spirit is.. "speakin to U".... Learn the Ways of the Medicine Wheel.. Respect Evry Nation.. Nvr Take more than U NEED... Live by Example.. Teach those BEHIND u 2 DO the SAME... Ur a Warrior n Ur own right....
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"REMEMBER ME..." I could never forget you, Tasunke Witko...
Tanka...Woplia... Pilamayaye Mitakuye Oyasin
Nor I .
Pilamiyaye!
Thank you for letting use know about the land of CRAZY horse
Respect and lots of love to our Crazy Horse 💓 thank you for more of a clear understanding 🤲 love to his family and friends 💞
Hoka hey!! Tasunke witko will never die, his spirit lives on forever in the Black hills.. I am ashamed that my people the tsoanontoan. did not stand and fight with the Lakota. in there defense they had already been beaten down and sold there souls and land to the whites... but I will always include in my prayers when in the Black hills. crazy horse 🏇
Greg Burgess no need to be ashamed of survival. You’re here because of the path they chose. Either tribes decision still had same result. If ALL the tribes across the country had communication and organization then you could have prevailed. I think they underestimated the inhumanity of their opponent. They should have seen what was happening with African enslaved people and understood. It’s always unimportant what happened to your neighbor until it happens to you... I was so hurt to learn what man the “five civilized tribes” civilized...
Every Chief nd Warrior.. from EVRY Tribe.. sacrificed THEIR lives in their own way..for the survival of the tribe... No shame in tht my brother... The pride of Native ppl..is the spirits of those who lived.. B4..us.. They live in US....
Go! Now. U go! Go nd live Ur life as an example to those who are coming BEHIND U....Teach Ur Language... Teach Ur Culture!.. Teach Ur Way of Life... thn.. Ur People will continue! Nd.. Ur pride and Ur memory will live on as well... GO!
Go and Live...
Go and Learn!...
Go and Love....
@@resilience4lyfe331 hey sorry I just now seen your comment.very nice of you to say such good things about the native American peoples and, the five civilized tribes in which I am result of. I feel for all peoples of the world who have been terrorized by the groups who have the upper hand at any given moment in history. But you are right I am proud to be a part of it and I believe you are too it's great to be alive no matter what. Life is great, live it. 😊
@@ToniM10 thank you, same to you brother 😊👍
crazy horse, sitting bull, Geronimo, red cloud, teschmie some of the greatest Chiefs of all time!!!! just to mention a few.
Red Cloud? I bet you ain't Indian. Maybe a "New Age" pseudo Indian.
@@karenbartlett1307 sorry to burst ur bubble but I am Seneca Iroquois part of the 6 nations. Not to mention I dont have, or NEED to explain to u what DNA runs through my blood.
@@nauniwhitewave-runningmout4526 Then why did you?
@@karenbartlett1307my original comment wasn't directed to you in particular. I didn't know the earth revolved around Karen on UA-cam. Y do u need to be so negative??? Life is to short.
@@nauniwhitewave-runningmout4526 good anwser🗝🌌
yes Crazy Horse was a loner .... never wanted fame but loved his people and lived and fought for them.... he did not want fame.... but for what he did
for his people ..... he reflected in his being a loner and going off.... insight of what you really are ... which a lot of us could learn from....almost perfect human
specimen ....
Rodney A. Grant did an amazing job as Crazy Horse. He is a grossly underrated actor.
My favourite Crazy Horse actor also. Loved him in Son of the Morning Star.
I liked Michael Greyeyes in "Crazy Horse"
The Lakota won a court case involving the Black Hills, which was illegally stolen from them by the US gov't. But the gov't wouldn't give them back Paha Sapa, instead offered millions of dollars as a cash settlement. The Lakota People won't cash that check and have refused it for years, maintaining that they want the return of the Black Hills. I'd say they were honoring Crazy Horse and their sacred land, as well as the sacrifices their People have made through the years.
Karen , I love the fact that they don't take the black hills bribe, but why do Indians take monthly checks from the government and free housing on modern day reservations, free college tuition etc . Why turn down millions but take hundreds of dollars monthly ?
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You don't get it. And you need to look into where that money really comes from
The Lakota won't ever get the Black Hills back.....The US government will drag it out in court for centuries if necessary, but they will never return the Black Hills. The money that the US govt offered them is still sitting in a bank account drawing interest...and last I heard was well over a billion dollars now. They should just take the money while they still can, and get out of the federal reservation system completely and learn to stand on their own two feet without always expecting the government to support them. But like slaves who have been held in bondage for so long, they may never be free and independent again. Blacks left the plantations for freedom....the Lakota need to be free of their reservations.
If modern Sioux were allowed to live in the Black Hills, which they never did before, it wouldn't take very long for it to look like a city dump. If you doubt it...read the history of the Yellow Thunder Camp at Victoria Lake.
Just FYI...I am an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and was born and raised in the Black Hills
@@davidmaclane5487 Then you should know that it's a matter of principle as to why they won't accept "the money". And you should know that "government support" of the Tribes is payment for land taken, not a "handout" as some suppose, and that reservations are all the Tribal land left. If they lose the land, they lose the Tribe and their own viability as a People. You should know these things. But maybe you just want a cut of "the money".
@@adamgraves5682 Because the checks from the US gov't are payment for land ceded by the Tribes. If they couldn't hunt, because their land was taken (and the game with it) then they had to have a way to eat. They used to be given "rations" in the way of payment, now it has evolved into checks, etc. They also needed shelter and eventually a way for some to get an education, to get out of poverty engendered by living on reservations and to help the People remaining on the rez. Btw, only members of federally recognized Tribes are entitled to these payments. The US gov't in the 1890's decreed that any Indians not willing to live on a reservation would be denied citizenship in their Tribe.
They were with us at Standing Rock.
Bless all our Warriors 💎💚💎
Even the Crow Indians say that Custer was killed down by the river and I even read one account where after the battle the Lakota went down to grab Custer's body and placed him along his brother who was up on the hill in order to tell them apart. That is one account I heard. Very interesting.
A TRUE AMERICAN !!!!!NOT EUROPEAN OR SPANISH 👍God Bless THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED WITH !!!!!the WORLD 😊g
Utter Champion Founding Father Chieftain Crazy Horse! Admiration HONOR And Respect! Freedom Justice Peace For Our Families!
Very inspirational to know the true history, thank you for sharing
not entirely true
Mike Alstott , there was one thing they left out, the shirt they gave him was taken away because of the affair he had with the other mans wife. With that being said, he was a true warrior and really cared about his people. My wife and I went out to Montana back in 2016 and toured the battlefield. It was very moving and inspiring. Would love to do it again sometime.
Thank you for uploading. Very informative, correct and respectful, with no exaggerated narration, music or other effects.
Mad props Lakota Nation, I feel connected to Crazy horse Amazing soul!!! 🌟
Love the honesty in this beautiful documentary.... awesome.
Still to this day, i will never forget
Only a few minutes in and the scenery is just got me ! Beautiful magical
In Australia the First Nation's sacred place was known by it's white man name, now it is known by it's closer traditional name, may the world come to know Tasunke Witko as the man that over shadowed Custer in the history books
Years back an uncle living in Texas started on the task of documenting our family history. He found written records and 1 tin back photo of my Great Grandmother , who was said to be the eldest daughter of Crazy Horses brother who reportedly was also a chief. I don't have his name nor was any recorded info available as it was a!l destroyed in a courthouse fire in Oklahoma where the Indian records were stored. Go figure.
The info found was that she was a gift of Life for a Life. The story passed on said they were in a wagon train headed for the Oklahoma landrush when influenza hit and they were behind the last wagon of sick , stayed to care for those along with 2 other wagons. On their return to join the wagon train they came across an injured Indian boy. They cared for his sounds and nursed him back to health. He directed them to his father's camp , where the grateful father give the daughter for the return of his only son. This is a beautiful story whether trueor not , we can't confirm it , but the photo of her was striking. A black and white , of course , but her eyes stood out also as they appear very light to white.
I have always been a rbel who has sought the Earth's comfort and spent as much time in nature as possible. Studied the art of healing herbs and nutrition that feeds the body not the mind. I searched thru many forms of natural healing during my hears of raising my children and raised them as close to thd an isn't path as I could. I was told my skull bones are indicative of Indian heritage , the way the are positioned and spaced. That was according to forensic science that was told to us in a high school assembly in 1969 , by a police detective! After the feds had been there previously and burned three tables of marijuana so we all knew what it smelled like cuz we has boys coming home from nam who had drug problems/needs. It was available the next day on smokers corner ! Go figure it saved our minds and lives from the constant lies and confusion of the day. Just look where the world is today , 7/21/2020. Even more bizzare !!!
this was beautiful mita kuye owasin waste chankpi opi forever are where i was raised and i follow crazy horses ways of life,also others like that of morning star/dull knife/littlewolf,are my people may we never forget what weve fought so hard to keep
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Please don't insult other people like that. l had to stick my foot in my mouth at times. Not with the insults, but to tell a few to stop with the claims to Native heritage. When you find out who they are and who their people are. Remember Natives have mixed with whites for years. And many natives were scattered .some never to know who they were. My blond green eyed friend found his grandparents, after his mum thinking she was Italian. sad,but happy for them. have a good.one mate.☺🇺🇸
My mother was taken from the rez when she was 7 I wasn't allowed to be Indian. Now I'm too white to be Indian and too dark to be white. I am a man without a nation
Randy LittleWolf ♥♥
Danny Coy ♥😞♥
No worries...@randy they don’t accept Black people either.. 😂 as if they didn’t ever mix...smdh
This may be misunderstood by many. I say this on the UA-cam which is a new medium to my people. I was reborn in the year 1952. I knew from age 2 years I should be a drummer. When I was 16 I played drums and learned from a friend Robert Drummond, Robert played drums with my father's band. Robert always called me "Crazy Horse" and referred to the Indian Wars. I went on to play drums professionally and will always be on the side of the Lakota Sioux.
Thank you for this wonder-full video...
Fucking idiot!
@@irishpaddy5962 that's a bit harsh Irish paddy!! I got a mate from Ireland his name is paddy Mullen ..I met him in Cambodia..but he don't play drums
@@suicidebysasquatch4873 I played the triangle in band when in 1st grade!! Now that I remember more teacher thought it was to important and took it offnme!!!!
All these years later I still ye nightmares from that day I'm now 32yrs old😀😂🤘