Why do we know so little about Crazy Horse? Paul Gordon St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada Simply put, Oglala war leader Crazy Horse was an incredibly defiant resistance fighter who shunned the spotlight. Ian Frazier, in his book Great Plains, wrote he loved Crazy Horse “...because, unlike many people all over the world, when he met white men he was not diminished by the encounter; because his dislike of the oncoming civilization was prophetic...deprived of freedom, power, occupation, cultu


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