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Eagle Elk's Story of Crazy Horse
in the Powder River Campaign of 1865
An Oglala Sioux's eye-witness recollection of Crazy Horse
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 EAGLE ELK'S ACCOUNT OF THE POWDER RIVER CAMPAIGN OF 1865
AFTER SEVERAL hours of inconclusive fighting between American troops commanded by Col. Nelson Cole and an estimated 1,000 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors on September 5, 1865, Crazy Horse said:
"Just keep away for a little while. These soldiers like to shoot. I am going to give them a chance to do all the shooting they want to do. You draw back and I will make them shoot. If I fall off, then you can do something if you feel like it; but don't do anything until I have run by them."
Crazy Horse galloped the length of the American sodiers' defensive line three times, until they gave up shooting at him, apparently because they concluded it was a waste of ammunition.
Then Crazy Horse returned to the Indian lines and said to his comrades:
"Now my friends, don't worry."
A short time later, the Cheyenne war chief Roman Nose repeated Crazy Horse's run from the other direction.
Eagle Elk was a member of the Last Child Society, a military lodge directed by Crazy Horse. The son of Long Whirlwind and Pretty Feather Woman (also known as Good Plume), he was also a cousin of Crazy Horse. Explaining this relationship, Eagle Elk said Crazy Horse "chose to call me 'cousin' [tahansi] from the marriage of his mother," adding, "My father married Crazy Horse's aunt."
Here is Eagle Elk's recollection of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life by Kingsley M. Bray, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 2006 p 88 - 89
Encyclopedia of Indian Wars : Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 by Gregory Michno, Mountain Press Pub. Co., Missoula, MT, 2003
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