10 Facts You Didn’t Know About Crazy Horse Lakota Warrior

8. Shirt Wearer – High Honour to Lakota People

There was an old tradition of giving a person within the tribe the honour of being a “Shirt Wearer”.

Basically if you got this honour it represented that you were a person who set a high example of being a Lakota Person.

You took care of the families within the tribe, you were a protector, a mentor, a teacher, and set a high example of humilty.

They gave this honour to Crazy Horse as he was self-less and always helped his people and kept the Lakota ways and traditions alive. 

He lost this honour when he took in a married woman by the name of Black Buffalo Woman and there was a conflict between him and “No Water”, which lead Crazy Horse to being shot in the face.

9. Last Sun Dance

A year after the Battle of Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse took part in a Sun Dance Ceremony. It was a ceremony they put on to honour Crazy Horse for his accomplishments and also to pray for time’s ahead.

During this time many of the Lakota tribes were going into Reservations or Agencies. Crazy Horse did not want to give up his Lakota ways and be in control of the white man.

He also did realize that more and more white man were coming onto the land with an abundance of weapons and bullets while his men were dwindling in numbers and resources were becoming thin.

10. Death

Just as Crazy Horse was going to take on a Reservation for his people, he was escorted to the Guardhouse. There he was double crossed and stabbed with a Guard Bayonet. 

He died September 5, 1877. 

There was never any pictures taken of Crazy Horse and one has come up which is very questionable. They said that he never did trust the white man to sit there to get his picture taken.