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Post by hconroy on Mar 6, 2015 18:49:57 GMT -5
dT There are many accounts of Sioux depredations along the upper Yellowstone in the years leading up to the Custer battle. I suppose that it is possible if not probable that Crazy Horse was present at least some of them. I have personally seen no record of his specific activities during this period, if indeed one exists. The only knowledge that I have of Crazy Horse that is aside from the typical generic is that some of his uncles were among the slain at the battle near present-day Lovell, Wyoming, in 1844. I was told this by a Crow oral historian. I am not sure if this could be true since I read somewhere that one of Crazy Horses's parents were Brule'. Perhaps Kingsley or Carlo could clarify things.
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Post by dT on Mar 6, 2015 19:26:23 GMT -5
Hconroy - please keep in touch with the Crow oral historian (or share!). That kind of knowledge is impossible to beat.
The following comments are not related to Crazy Horse, or the death of Mr Shively in Columbus, MT. This is a completely separate topic. Please ask the Crow historian if he knows that happened to the body of Chief Looking Glass after he was killed. I realize that Looking Glass was a Nez Perce (and not a Crow). But the Crows know a lot about what happened in those years. And it is possible that the Crows also know why they turned down the request for help from the Nez Perce, when the Nez Perce were fighting their war with the soldiers and fleeing from the US Cavalry.
thanks, dT
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Post by hconroy on Mar 7, 2015 8:05:44 GMT -5
dT, I will be sure to ask when I next have an opportunity to converse with him. It may be several weeks or months from now.
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Post by dT on Mar 7, 2015 22:35:45 GMT -5
tell him I would like to say Hallo some time. I have been meaning to visit the Crow Reservation for a while now.
thanks!
dT
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