Crazy Horse - Sioux
Tashunca-uitco
(1849-1877)

"I was not hostile to the white man...We preferred hunting to a life of idleness on our reservations. At times we did not get enough to eat and we were not allowed to hunt. All we wanted was peace and to be let alone. Soldiers came...in the winter..
and destroyed our villages. Then Long Hair (Custer) came...They said we massacred him, but he would have done the same to us.
Our first impulse was to escape...but we were so hemmed in we had to fight. After that I went up on the Tongue River with a few of my
people and lived in peace. But the government would not let me
alone. Finally, I came back to the Red Cloud Agency. Yet I was not allowed to remain quiet. I was tired of fighting. I went to the Spotted Tail Agency and asked that chief and his agent to let me live there in peace. I
came here with the agent (Lee) to talk with the Big White Chief but was not given a chance. They tried to confine me. I tried to escape, and a soldier ran his bayonet into me.

I have spoken.

"Song of Crazy Horse" 
Robert Taylor

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