Crazy Horse- The Strange Man of the Oglalas (3rd Ed) by Mari Sandoz

Author:Mari Sandoz [Sandoz, Mari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, History, Native Americans, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780803217874
Amazon: 0803217870
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 2008-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

Soon there was news that another trader's son had come to live among them. It was young John Richard, the one they called Lean Elk. He was with Red Cloud, his mother's relation, and it seemed that he, too, had run away from the whites because of a killing, not his first, but this time a killing that the officer at Fetterman did not like, a soldier shot right in the fort. It seemed the trouble was over one of the pay-women of the whites—a Bad Disease woman. So before anyone could arrest him he went north. Now the whites from along the Holy Road were saying he had threatened to lead the warriors against them, clean them out. The Lakotas found this very funny, even Crazy Horse laughing a little. It was strange, the foolish things the white man would believe. Only one who had proved himself in many good fights could get the warriors to follow him, and this Lean Elk was not a warrior at all, but a trader's son.

Still, he might be useful, Worm and Long Face thought. He had been to the white man's schools and, even better, he had lived with the Crows for several years. He might carry the tobacco of friendship to their camps.

But soon it was seen that it was not for the Crows that Lean Elk was carrying tobacco, but for Red Cloud. So Crazy Horse went to the Bad Face camp to visit his friend Yellow Bear, who had given his two sisters to young Richard when he first came north and was already sorry, for it seemed that this trader's son liked the whisky cup very much. He also had the peculiar belief of the white man that a husband has the right to knock his woman down as though she were an enemy warrior.

Yellow Bear had more than this to tell to a man whose mouth was as closed as that of the Hunkpatila shirt-wearer. Messengers were carrying secret letters from the Holy Road to Richard. The whites wanted Man Afraid, Brave Bear, and some others to go to visit the Great Father but they were having trouble with the Hunkpatila and so they hoped to work the Indians against each other, promising Lean Elk that if he got Red Cloud to go along the soldier killing would be forgotten. To get this done young Richard was offering many things, including hints that the whites might make Red Cloud head chief of all the Oglalas.

Hoh! Head chief of the Oglalas! He was not even a headman of the Bad Faces, only a warrior leader. But of these things the whites knew nothing.

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