Freedom Fighters

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courage or leadership.
It was first discovered that Crazy Horse was to be a leader when he was only about thirteen years old. Crazy Horse went on a vision quest, or went to secluded place to try and have a vision that would guide them through their lives. What Crazy Horse saw would explain how he should live the rest of his life. He saw a horse with a man with long brown hair on top of it, the rider didn’t have his face painted, but a hawks feather in his hair, and brown stone behind one ear. In his vision, Crazy Horse could hear the thoughts of the rider, he was thinking that that man would never wear a traditional war bonnet, paint his horse or do what many warriors did. He instead should, sprinkle the horse, and himself with dust, never take any of the dead enemies possessions, the rider could go through the middle of battles but would not be hurt by arrows. Crazy Horse’s father believed that this vision showed that Crazy Horse would lead his people, and help the hungry and weak. Crazy Horse, in time would prove this true. (Kallen 75)
When Crazy Horse was about seventeen he prepared himself for his first battle. It was to be fought against the Arapaho tribe. Crazy Horse prepared himself just as he saw in the vision, the feather in his hair, and brown stone behind his ear, and sprinkled dust on him, and his horse. Into the second hour of the battle the Sioux were ready to retreat, but then Crazy Horse remembered his vision, and charged through Arapaho bullets, he then began killing them. Crazy Horse took his people to victory, but when Crazy Horse went to collect the scalps from the people he killed he was struck by an arrow, showing him that he was going against his vision, he would never take anything from a enemy. (Kallen 76).
Around 1865 when Crazy Horse was in his early twenties he began to take leadership of his tribe, and also began to get very passionate about the land that his tribe lived on. The U.S. g...