History is not like something like math. It's something that can have potentially many

right answers and many different perspectives and many different ways to look at things.

And what that means is sometimes when you're taking a tour through the past, the guide

that you have at the time is key. And you can take the same tour multiple times. But if

you have a different guide, they'll point out different things, emphasize different things.

How often have you read two different books on the same historical event and gotten

different perspectives? The perspective of the storyteller matters. Whether you like

history or not, if you care about things like bravery, wisdom, and passion, and larger

than life characters, and some of the most emotionally intense moments in the human experience,

you come to the right place and have a chance to get a perspective from a different

kind of historical tour guide. Daniele Bellele is a university history professor, a writer,

a martial artist, a philosopher, and it provides a very different sort of tour guide through

the past than you normally encounter. And this tour, he'll be your guide in a journey

to the place where history and epic collide.

Let's go say history on fire.

Welcome to part three of a Ford Power series on the life of Lakota leader Crazy Horse,

and more in general about the conflict between the Lakota people and the United States. We

pick up the story in the latter part of the 1860s. At some point an unspecified date between

1865, according to some estimates and 1868, according to others, something happened that

contributed to the growing legend of Crazy Horse.

Dioglala, which were the subdivision of the Lakota, which Crazy Horse belonged, had decided

to nominate new leaders among the younger generation. And the way they were going to go

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