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Colorado State Standard
Content Area: 5th Grade Social Studies
Standard 1. History
Identify and explain cultural interactions between 1491 and the American Revolution.
Topics to include but not limited to the Columbian Exchange, the interactions between
Europeans and native Americans in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the developing
relationship between Europeans and enslaved Africans (DOK 1-2)
Identify and describe the significant individuals and groups of Native Americans and
European
colonists before the American Revolution. (DOK 1-2)
ISTE STANDARD
1. Creativity and innovation
b. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression
2. Communication and collaboration
c. Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with
learners other
cultures.
3. Research and information fluency
b.
Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use
information from a variety of sources and media.

CRAZY HORSE
We preferred our own way of living. We were at no
expense to the government. All we wanted was
peace and to be left alone.

Native
American
Leader
BIRTH DATE
c. 1842
DEATH DATE
September 5, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH
South Dakota
PLACE OF DEATH
Fort Robinson, Nebraska
FULL NAME
Tashunka Witco

 One does not sell the earth

upon which people walk. -Crazy
Horse

Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux, was born in 1840 in South Dakota. He fought for his people and was forced to g
and was eventually arrested on May 6, 1877. Crazy Horse was a celebrated warrior and influential leader o
Western Band of Sioux Indians.

n the 1850s, tensions started to begin with the Westward Movement of white settlers in search of gold.
Military forts were established and diseases were spread to the Native Americans wiping out their
populations.
n 1854, after the all the tensions, the Grattan Massacre arose when Lt. John Grattan and some of his men
Entered a Sioux camp thinking he was getting justice for killing a cow. This was the first of the Sioux Wars
Between the U.S. and Lakota.
Crazy Horse went on to fight many wars along side Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Sioux. After fleeing to Canada
he eventually grew tired, his followers left him and he ran out of food and supplies. He surrendered in
Nebraska and was eventually taken to Fort Robinson. Being the fighter that he was he got in a fight with so
Officers and he was stabbed in the kidneys and died.

Tashunka Witco

Some facts:

There in no known pictures of Crazy Horse.

There are some fake claims that his picture exists.
Crazy Horse refused to sign any treaties or sign any documents; there is no known signature of his name.

June 3rd, 1948, there was a blast on The Mountain in Black Hills South Dakota. A monument was sculpted
of Crazy Horse to preserve tradition and culture of Native American Tribes.