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Red Cloud was a leader of the Oglala Lakota from 1865 to 1909. He was one of the most capable Native American opponents whom the United States Army faced in the western territories. He led the Lakota to defeat the United States during Red Cloud's War, establishing the Lakota as the only nation to defeat the United States on American soil. The largest action of the war was the 1866 Fetterman Fight, with 81 US soldiers killed; it was the worst military defeat suffered by the US Army on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later.
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Crazy Horse was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. 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.
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- ↑ Marshall, Joseph M. III (2004). The journey of Crazy Horse: a Lakota history. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-303621-0.
- ↑ Paul D. Riley: Oglala Sources on the Life of Crazy Horse. Interviews given to Eleanor H. Hinman. In: R. Eli Paul: The Nebraska Indian Wars reader, 1865–1877. University of Nebraska Press 1998, p. 185.