Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó, lit. ‘His-Horse-Is-Crazy’; c. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was born as a member of the Oglala Lakota on Rapid Creek about 40 miles northeast of Thunderhead Mt. (now Crazy Horse Mountain) in c. 1840. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by white American settlers on Native American territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles of the Black Hills War on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman Fight in 1866, in which he acted as a decoy, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, in which he led a war party to victory, earned him great respect from both his enemies and his own people.He was killed at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, by a soldier around midnight on September 5, 1877.
The son of a medicine man, Crazy Horse spent the early years of his life raised by the women of his tiospaye or family. Once Crazy Horse was old enough he set out on one of the most important rites of passage to a Lakota warrior…the Vision Quest (Hanbleceya – "crying for a vision” or “to pray for a spiritual experience”). This rite of passage gave Crazy Horse guidance on his path in life. He went alone into the hills for four days without food or water and cried for a dream to the great spirits.
By the time Crazy Horse was in his mid-teens he was already a full-fledged warrior. His bravery and prowess in battle were well-known by the Lakota people. He rode into battle with a single hawk feather in his hair, a rock behind his ear, and a lightning symbol on his face. The symbols and rituals that went into preparing for war provided the warrior power and protection.
In 1876, Crazy Horse led a band of Lakota warriors against Custer’s Seventh U.S. Cavalry battalion. They called this the Battle of the Little Bighorn also known as Custer’s Last Stand and the Battle of the Greasy Grass. Custer, 9 officers, and 280 enlisted men, all lay dead after the fighting was over. According to tribes who participated in the battle, 32 Indians were killed. Without Crazy Horse and his followers the battle’s outcome would have been much different as he was integral in stopping reinforcements from arriving.
It was after the Battle of the Little Bighorn that the United States Government would send scouts to round up any Northern Plains tribes who resisted. This forced many Indian Nations to move across the country, always followed by soldiers, until starvation or exposure would force them to surrender. This is how Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce and Sitting Bull of the Hunkpapa Lakota were forced into submission.
In 1877, under a flag of truce, Crazy Horse went to Fort Robinson. Negotiations with U.S. Military leaders stationed at the Fort broke down. Eyewitnesses blame the breakdown in negotiations on the translator who incorrectly translated what Crazy Horse said. Crazy Horse was quickly escorted toward the jail. Once he realized that the commanding officers were planning on imprisoning him, he struggled and drew his knife. Little Big Man, friend and fellow warrior of Crazy Horse, tried to restrain him. As Crazy Horse continued to free himself, an infantry guard made a successful lunge with a bayonet and mortally wounded the great warrior. Crazy Horse died shortly after the mortal wound was inflicted. There are different accounts putting the date of his death around midnight September 5, 1877.
It is a well-known fact that Crazy Horse refused to have his picture or likeness taken. Crazy Horse lived under the assumption that by taking a picture a part of his soul would be taken and his life would be shortened. The popular response to photograph requests would be, “Would you imprison my shadow too?”
Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski decided to create a monument that captured Crazy Horse’s likeness based on the descriptions provided to honor the principles and values for which Native Americans stood and to honor all the indigenous people of North America. With Crazy Horse riding his steed out of the granite of the sacred Black Hills with his left hand gesturing forward in response to the derisive question asked by a Cavalry man, “Where are your lands now?” Crazy Horse replied, “My lands are where my dead lie buried.”
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Fuck off, I just posted a second great Trump doing a Mario let’s play bit. I’m copying it over cause im proud
worth it
I’m enjoying myself a lot. I’m a very casual super Mario bros speed runner and picturing a lil 8 bit Trump running around the levels and talking about it fills me with glee
its an excellent bit im snorting
So I grab that star, I’m bright, I’m SHINY! I’m going right along and this turtles and these GOOM-bahs, they bounce right off me! I’m immune! Some people, yes. I know, some people and we know who they are, would say I was vaccinated against the turtles. Vaccinated against the turtles. The turtles and the GOOM-bahs. The turtles and the GOOM-bahs and the fish and the squid and the spiky turtles. Vaccinated. Folks, that star, that wonderful magnificent star. It ran out! It didn’t work anymore after a while! Now here come the turtles. Here come those nasty GOOM-bahs! Very nasty those ones. The spiky turtles, the fish and squid! Even the man in the cloud now! He wasn’t afraid anymore. I wasn’t immune! It was dangerous. The vaccination wore off folks!’
Cultural context is a hell of a drug. Imagine reading the previous paragraph in 1956
ok i pull up
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A brave man and a warrior of the people
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i’m normally a pretty angry type of commie but the way liberals are responding to Muslim Americans not wanting to vote for genocide in Palestine is making my blood absolutely fucking boil
Proletariat is when pickup truck and racism, bourgeoisie is when bike
- Karl Marx
Finally got medicated recently for a very late diagnosis of a disorder I’ve definitely had since childhood and wow, the first quarter century of my life could’ve been so much better. I could’ve been such a better person. Hate how I had to wait until I became completely independent of my parents to be able to take care of myself properly
I’m so upset
Total volcel victory.
World War 1 generals when they successfully moved the frontlines forward an entire 20 feet (It cost them 2,600,000 lives and took 28 months to accomplish this)
Me: “Why do I feel like such shit? It’s a complete mystery”
Also me: has consumed nothing but alcohol and potatoes in the past 36 hours
fuck me comrades I’m at that point of listless loneliness where I actually feel relieved when my weekend is over like 50% of the time, this is really really bad, working fucking sucks and the vibes at my job are decidedly Bad
Some chud called the pride flag a “sex flag” and I’m chuckling at the idea that it’s a flag for sex-haver pride due to being oppressed by virgins.
NotJustBikes guy: “You might think he’s way far to the right wing, but he’s actually pro-gay.”
My housemate is friends with a bunch of American liberals and I always end up offending them because I forget they don’t like jokes about 9/11 and Biden
What if instead of doublethink it was doubletwink and you just got two twinks I think I’d like that
the youtube algorithm may keep trying to get me to watch crypto-fascist propaganda, but it also keeps giving me japanese* jazz fusion albums i would have never encountered otherwise so it’s impossible to say if it’s bad or not
*it’s always japanese, so weird racism there. but the albums all fucking rule
If you happen to be into terminally online culture, I think non-mainstream Japanese music is part of that which might be why YouTube keeps recommending that
I’m really into the flying beagle one
I get a ton of Japanese music too but it’s good so
Let me fix the Japanese part for you, I seem to have the only half decent algorithm left on YouTube.
Muslimgauze - Hamas Arc (1993)
Benjamin Earl Turner - Headspace/Bent (2023)
Bill Ryder-Jones - If Tomorrow Starts Without Me (2023)
[Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue (2008)](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhrglt2nmIGj8uSkZySSZ3efB0Co3AJYJ&si=QhPRkQoBYbUMSkf_
Elleanor Burke, random queer artist I found on here
I used to make a LOT of music, even ran a channel on it. I did my sample digging on YouTube, so I have a lot of weird cool stuff pop up. Dreams is a GREAT jazz project, while Muslimgauze is more of a noisy EDM type thing.
HR changed our sick time policy for next year, instead of just getting sick time, we now accrue it at a rate of 1 hour every 30 worked hours. 240 hours, 3 whole paychecks for one day of sick time. So the new sick policy at work has become “if you’re sick, pretend you aren’t and come in anyways.” This will go great with the 3 or 4 respiratory illnesses floating around right now. No more working from home either, 100% office staffing. I’m honestly trying so hard to just get fired so I can find something new but we’re so short staffed that they can’t afford to fire me. And I’ve grown woefully addicted to food and shelter, so I can’t just up and quit on my own. Love to be thrown into the biological shredder for a Wage :)