EPISODE 7 Crazy Horse (Part 1)

History on Fire

Daniele Bolelli

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2016

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

You Don’t Get to Be a Legend by Being Normal

"What good is power if you cannot protect the ones you love?" muses Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. I can’t think of a more appropriate question to discuss the life of 19th century Lakota hero Crazy Horse. His undeniable power as a warrior, in fact, didn’t spare him from having tragedy visit him time and time again. Taking place against the backdrop of the Lakota-U.S. conflict in the second half of the 1800s, his life was the quintessential tale where epic, heartbreak, bravery, and horror mix freely. His people were one of the last Native American tribes to stand in the face of American expansion. And Crazy Horse was always in the thick of the action, throughout over twenty years of intermittent warfare. In the first of this four-part series, we’ll cover the first couple of decades of Crazy Horse’s story, the first dramatic clash between Lakota warriors and the U.S. Army, vision quests, thunder-dreaming, earning the ‘Crazy Horse’ name, Sand Creek Massacre, and calling for revenge.

This Crazy Horse series is dedicated to James R. Weddell (“Ista To’paicagopi”)

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0:00.0	What do you like history or not?
0:02.7	If you care about bravery, wisdom, passion,
0:05.9	larger than life characters,
0:07.4	and some of the most emotionally intense moments
0:09.3	in the human experience,
0:10.7	you have come to the right place.
0:13.1	Daniela Bollelli is a university history professor,
0:15.8	writer and martial artist,
0:17.6	and he shall be your guide,
0:18.9	in a journey to the place where history and epic collide.
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0:52.9	playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background. This episode is dedicated to the memory of my friend James weereddel from the Youngtonsfu tribe. The Cota name was Ishta Tupaka-Kopi. I learned much from him about loyalty, generosity, bravery. So this is my way of saying thank you.
1:22.9	If half of what he said about him is true, the men were going to be talking about today,
1:31.3	is one of those rare individuals for whom the phrase, larger than life, seems to have been created.
1:38.0	The subject of this multi-par series is 19th century Lakota leader Crazy Horse.
1:45.6	His life was characterized by a degree of heroism and bravery, at a level much deeper than the majority of human beings can even imagine.
1:57.1	But by the same token, his life was also characterized by a degree of tragedy, running much deeper than the majority of human beings can even imagine.
2:06.4	It has entered our common vocabulary to use the term Greek tragedy to describe the sunsiness in that equally apic and tragic.
2:16.8	While the story will play with today very much fits the bill, but there's nothing Greek about it.
2:23.1	This is a Lakota tragedy, true and true.
2:30.0	Crazy Horse was pretty much the embodiment of the strong silent type.
2:36.4	He was an introvert, not about it, but he was also ridiculously powerful as a warrior.
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