Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó; IPA: [tχaˈʃʊ̃kɛ witˈkɔ], lit. ''His-Horse-Is-Crazy''); (c. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. 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. 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. In September 1877, four months after surrendering to U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Crazy Horse has received more than 3,455,202 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Crazy Horse is the 1,308th most popular politician (down from 1,228th in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from United States (down from 361st in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Politician.

Crazy Horse was a Lakota Sioux warrior who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Crazy Horse was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on September 5, 1877.