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“Black Elk Continues:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crazy Horse whipped Three Stars on the Rosebud that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

day, and I think he could have rubbed the soldiers out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He could have called many more warriors from the villages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and he could have rubbed the soldiers out at daybreak,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for they camped there in the dark after the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He whipped the cavalry of Three Stars when they attacked <\/p>\n\n\n\n

his village on the Powder that cold morning in the Moon of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snowblind [March]. Then he moved farther west to the Rosebud;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and when the soldiers came to kill us there, he whipped <\/p>\n\n\n\n

them and made them go back. Then he moved farther west to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the valley of the Greasy Grass [Little Bighorn River].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were in our own country all the time and we only wanted to be let alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soldiers came there to kill us, and many got rubbed out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was our country and we did not want to have trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We camped there in the valley along the south side of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greasy Grass before the sun was straight above; and this was,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think, two days before the battle. It was a very big village<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and you could hardly count the tepees. Farthest up the stream<\/p>\n\n\n\n

toward the south were the Hunkpapas, and the Oglalas were<\/p>\n\n\n\n

next. Then came the Minneconjous, the San Arcs, the Blackfeet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Shyelas; and last, the farthest towards the north, were <\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Santees and Yanktonais. Along the side towards the east was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Greasy Grass, with some timber along it, and it was running<\/p>\n\n\n\n

full from the melting snow in the Bighorn Mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you stood on a hill you could see the mountains off to the south<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and west. On the other side of the river, there were bluffs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and hills beyond. Some gullies came down through the bluffs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the westward side of us were lower hills, and there we grazed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

our ponies and guarded them. There were so many they could<\/p>\n\n\n\n

not be counted.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from “Black Elk Speaks”, as told through<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John G. Niehardt, author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Islander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Black Elk Continues: Crazy Horse whipped Three Stars on the Rosebud that day, and I think he could have rubbed the soldiers out there. He could have called many more warriors from the villages and he could have rubbed the soldiers out at daybreak, for they camped there in the dark after the fight. He … Continue reading “Black Elk”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1988","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1988\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}