CRAZY HORSE / TASHUNCA, Lakota:

Warrior

Crazy Horse, Lakota
Tasunke Wakan
c. 1845-1877

Crazy Horse earned his reputation among the Lakota not only by demonstrating heroic skill and bravery during battle, but also by his blustery determination to preserve his traditional Indian culture. For example, Crazy Horse refused to allow anyone to take his photograph.

"(Crazy Horse) was an uncommonly handsome man. While not the equal of Gall in magnificence and imposing stature, he was physically perfect, an Apollo in symmetry. Furthermore he was a true type of Indian refinement and grace. He was modest and courteous as Chief Joseph; the difference is that he was a born warrior, while Joseph was not."

From the book "Indian Heros and Great Chieftains" by Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa).

TRADITIONAL Native American Indian Quotations

Upon suffering beyond suffering:

The Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world; a world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations; a world longing for light again.

I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.

In that day, there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom.

I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one.

- Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota Sioux (circa 1840-1877)

Crazy Horse is quoted as saying while he sat smoking the Sacred Pipe with Sitting Bull for the last time — Crazy Horse was killed four days later by US Army soldiers in a hand-to-hand scuffle as they attempted to imprison him. There are no known photographs of Crazy Horse, he would not permit anyone to take his picture, presumably, Crazy Horse believed a photograph stole or unnaturally held the soul of the person(s) pictured.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan (Athlete, 1963-)

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