b'The Story of Crazy Horse was made a shirt wearer, a war leader of the Lakota, when Black Buffalo Woman already was married to No Water and the mother of three children, that he began paying attention to her. Crazy Horse and He Dog were made shirt wearers together, in about 1865. That would place the start of Crazy Horse\'s involvement with Black Buffalo Woman in the late 1860s, when he was nearing thirty years of age, and not the summer of 1862 when he was in his early twenties. Of course, Crazy Horse could have been infatuated with Black Buffalo Woman for years before finally doing something about it. But even though he was a quiet man, it seems likely he would have confided something about his attraction to Black Buffalo Woman to a close friend such as He Dog. Likewise, there is nothing in the record to support the toothache incident with No Water. Neither is there a mention of a conspiracy between No Water and Red Cloud to steal Black Buffalo Woman from Crazy Horse.The story of Crazy Horse\'s early love for Black Buffalo Woman also is called into question by the fact she married No Water while Crazy Horse was away with a war party. It would seem doubtful that Black Buffalo Woman would have so easily given up on such a rising young warrior as Crazy Horse if there was anything serious between them at the time. That Crazy Horse was rapidly rising in esteem by his early twenties is supported by the fact that he was made a shirt wearer while only in his mid-twenties, an early age for such a high honor. Further bringing into question the romantic image of Crazy Horse and Black Buffalo Woman is He Dog\'s statement that he and Crazy Horse "courted the girls together." That would seem to indicate that Crazy Horse was interested in other girls besides Black Buffalo Woman and did not pine for her.If Crazy Horse courted the girls, though, why he allowed his early twenties, the traditional marriage age among the Lakota, to pass without taking a wife is a mystery. Perhaps he did not marry at the usual age because of his ambition "to get to the highest rank" (Ibid., pp. 158-159).And herein lays another obstacle, another danger that would surely derail any plans of the young Crazy Horse to become a leader of the Oglala, and the Lakota nation period.Double H Hat Company For, as Sajna states: "In Lakota Society, women were considered inherently dangerous,specializes in custom handmade corrupting influences that could harm or even destroy a man simply by touching hisfelted fur hats in various styles medicine or his equipment" (Ibid., p. 159). including western, gentlemen And yes, whatever it was, blind infatuation or true love, even in the freewheelingand ladies hats. The shop is culture of the Lakota stealing another man\'s wife was a strict taboo - with consequenceslocated in under the longhorn that could destroy a warrior\'s reputation no matter his skills, his bravery, and hisWe will custom build a hat toin Wickenburg. 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Stealingcustom designed for you.another man\'s wife was strictly taboo, and Crazy Horse knew this. The consequence was strict and final, His hair shirt was taken back and he was never again to be a shirt wearer.Although this temporarily brought shame to Crazy Horse, he was never really suited to be a shirt wearer. Crazy Horse was the archetypal man of action. He rarely attended councils, and in those he did, he didn\'t speak. It was "just his nature," remembered He Dog. "He was a very quiet man except when he was fighting" (Gardner, The Earth is All That Lasts, p. 180).In short, while Crazy Horse had long wanted to be a shirt wearer, he found that he was more cut out to be a warrior chief, one who inspired, who demonstrated great personal courage.Yes, losing the status of a shirt wearer was, initially in the short term a blow to Crazy Horse. But he was a man who didn\'t care much for status, and gradually, within a couple of years, his prowess on the battlefield against the Crow, Shoshone and Pawnee would win him favor amongst the rank and file of the Oglala and the other Sioux tribes. His deeds too, would ensure his return to favor amongst the warriors, so much so that when white miners and settlers began to move en masse into the Black Hills, with the government at the same time demanding the Sioux give up their sacred grounds that it would be Crazy Horse, only second to Sitting Bull, who would stand out as a chief resistor to white invasion.For the next few years, Crazy Horse continued to pursue married women, until in 1871 when he was already past 30 he was persuaded to marry an Oglala woman named Black Shawl. Black Shawl did bear Crazy Horse a daughter with the unusual name of They Are Afraid of Her who was said to resemble Crazy Horse. However They Are Afraid of Her suddenly took sick and died at an early age - some sources say she was only two, others three, and one of them, the notedhalf-white, half-Polynesian scout Frank Grouard who was for a time friendly with Crazy Horse claims she was about four and that he helped Crazy Horse bury her (Sajna, p. 237).At any rate, Crazy Horse did not break down, run to the hills, and refer to himself as "Worm" as the 1976 film The White Buffalo suggested. He mourned, and then went back to his warrior role - as an old enemy, one that violently threatened the very existence of the Lakota - was already looming on the horizon.THE CALM BEFORE THE STORMEven as the Sioux celebrated the results of the Fort Laramie Treaty, the subsequent abandonment of Fort Phil Kearny and their burning down the fort, death, and continued on page 47ArizonaRealCountry.com February 2023 45'