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Black Elk Recalls Crazy Horse
BLACK ELK REMEMBERS CRAZY HORSE Never was excited. Sociable in the tipi, but at war he was not at all sociable. He never had a good horse in his life. Horses couldn't go far with him for some reason. He was small and slender. Warriors think that the stone he carried with him had something to do with this. They think he had a vision about a rock and that he was as heavy as a rock. That's why no horse could pack him. He got wounded once when he was fourteen or fifteen years old, but ever since that time he was never wounded and was in a great many battles too. At Crazy Horse's deathbed he said nothing except, "Hey, hey, hey" (regret). He had killed nothing and he was going to die. He was wounded by his own tribe. The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt by John Gneisenau Neihardt, Black Elk and Raymond J DeMallie, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE 1984 p 203 - 204
Black Elk was Crazy Horse's cousin. Although Black Elk was only 13, he took two scalps in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Black Elk surrendered with Crazy Horse's band at Ft. Robinson in May 1877.
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