b'The Story of Crazy HorsePART 6 By Alan Rockman Iwere once his friends had become insanely jealous of him was hostile to the white manwe preferred hunting to a lifeand his popularity among the rank and file of the Sioux - the of idleness on our reservations."knives were definitely out for him.At times we did not get enough to eat and we were not allowedTsunke Witco would experience a new love, the best of to hunt. All we wanted was peacehis people and yes, even of some Army officers (more and to be left alone" Chiefabout that later in this narrative) - and the worst of both Crazy Horse, shortly before he was murdered (quoted byhis own Oglala, even friends who were willing to betray R.G. Grant, Warrior, D&K Publishing, London, New York, him, and of those petulant, scheming officers like Crook 2007, p.216). who were willing to go to the ultimate limit in doing away with him - of hate that would ultimately undermine his Chief Crazy Horse formally surrendered at the Red Cloudauthority and eventually bring about his death. He always agency to Lieutenant William Philo Clark of the U.S. Army,tried to convey his innermost thoughts to the whites he saying through an interpreter to the young Lieutenant, "Koladealt with, but was always undermined by interpreters like (friend) I want this peace to last forever" (Thomas Powers,Grouard or Billy Garnett who were either unable to clearly The Killing of Crazy Horse, Vintage Books, New York,communicate the Oglala chief\'s wishes - or had their own p.262). He never realized he was surrendering into a worldhidden agendas. Grouard for example, had befriended, of redskin - and white - Byzantine intrigues, into a worldand then betrayed Crazy Horse. Garnett would later be of those who were jealous of him for various reasons. Theinvolved in the events that directly led to Crazy Horse\'sLittle Big Manolder Oglala Chiefs Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, who weredeath. For their part, even officers as seemingly benevolent both uncles of the young Crazy Horse but who resented himas Bourke and Clark were, they too remained highly for going on the warpath (for his part, Crazy Horse neversuspicious of the young chief\'s motives right up to the forgave Red Cloud for what he may have assumed his roleend. (A prime example of this failure to communicate,the chief\'s arrival Bourke went to see him in the company in the Black Buffalo Woman fiasco) and may have beeni.e., the supposed willingness - or more likely, directof Frank Grouard, who had arranged to take Crazy Horse jealous too of his fame. George Crook was jealous of himunwillingness of Crazy Horse to join the Army in the fightto dinner. They found the chief sitting in front of his lodge for having bested him at the Rosebud, for forcing him toagainst the Nez Perce will be explored in full below.) while two women busied themselves roasting coffee and stay in place while Crazy Horse and his warriors rode northpreparing food. Someone had told Bourke that Crazy Horse to destroy Custer. And the many officers that served underAnd what about George Crook? Let\'s not even go there, atat the Little Big Horn had killed one of Custer\'s men with Crook who may have also shared his resentment over theleast for now, in part because initially Crook, for all of hisa stone war club while the soldier struggled to control his Rosebud debacle - and who wished to avenge Custer. Philoanimosity towards Tsunke Witco, had an early, favorablehorse. This fact appears to have colored the impression of Clark, who had initially admired and wanted to work withimpression of the chief. the chief which formed in Bourke\'s mind.the warrior chief, had become fed up with Crazy Horse\'s insistence on having a reservation of his own, away fromFOR THE BETTERMENT OF HIS PEOPLE "Frank is the only one whom Crazy Horse seems at all to see the scheming and petty jealousies of Red Cloud and SpottedAt first, what seemed uppermost on Crazy Horse\'s(he - Bourke - wrote in his diary). To the rest of the world, he Tail. He began to intensely dislike Crazy Horse, the changemind was to get his thousand followers fed, clothed,is sullen and gloomy. His face is quiet, rather morose, dogged, coming up quite fast, and added to the other issues involved,and accommodated. They had starved and froze in thetenacious, and resolute. His expression is rather melancholic. may very well had fatal repercussions as will soon be noted. Dakota wilderness for almost nine months - well beforeCrazy Horse remained seated on the ground, but when Frank Slim Buttes and Wolf Mountain - they had trekked forcalled his name, Tsunke Witco, he looked up and gave me He also probably never realized that he would have only fourmany a mile, not north to Canada as Sitting Bull had, buta hearty grasp of the hand. He looks quite young, not over more months to live once he had surrendered. But perhapsin sort of a roundabout movement throughout the Blackthirty years old, five feet eight inches high, is lithe and sinewy, too, he may have known he would never have reached a ripeHills, through the mountains, the streams, the creeks, andand has a wound in his face" (Ibid., p. 277, Bourke, On the old age, under the guns of the soldiers who resented andthe woods. Their moccasins were ripped, their clothingBorder with Crook,Time-Life Books, reprinted from Charles hated him, or his fellow Sioux who schemed against him, eventattered and worn, and yes, they were hungry. He had toScribner\'s Sons, New York, 1891, pp. 414-415).old friends who had once rode into battle with him, whomwork with his uncles - who clearly resented both his refusal he shared his food, his tepee, and his life with. According toto follow their lead and for his popularity amongst theFor all this, Bourke did come away with two positive Gardner, Crazy Horse may even have had second thoughtsSioux. For his part, Crazy Horse sensed this animosity, butimpressions from his dinner with Crazy Horse. He was able about surrendering to Red Cloud and to Lieutenant Clark,he knew he had to work with them and with the whites ifto pick up the quiet, thoughtful power of the young chief, for when he sat down with those Red Cloud emissarieshis people were to bear their subjugation and for them tobut perhaps most importantly, he had sensed the young negotiating his surrender, he remained stoic and silent. thrive. He could suffer, but he couldn\'t bear that his peoplechief\'s desire to commit to and seek a lasting peace, shown had to. He clung to the hope - promised by Lieutenantby the friendly greeting and the handshake proffered by Crazy Horse didn\'t speak for some time. He didn\'t want toClark and other officers that he would soon be able to havethe chief. And this, in his first meetings with Crook, Clark, go to an agency, and he likely was regretting his decisiona reservation of his own. As noted by Thomas Powers inand Bourke, was seemingly the true impressions of this not to join Sitting Bull. Crazy Horse knew that his mostThe Killing of Crazy Horse:powerful, ethical, spiritual chieftain.loyal followers would abide by whatever course he chose, but he simply couldn\'t bear to be the one to tell his peopleDuring his first weeks at the Red Cloud Agency, it wasFor his part Crazy Horse seemed quite serious in his pursuit to surrender. Surrender, as Luther Standing Bear explained,evident that Crazy Horse. He had one overriding goal:of peace, even going so far as to pledge his fealty to George "meant submission to a people whom (Crazy Horse) did notto secure an Agency in the north. To achieve this goal heCrook himself when Crook, accompanied by Colonel consider his equal; it meant the doom of his race" (Gardner,expected to go to Washington with the other chiefs. He hadRanald S. Mackenzie of the 4th Cavalry arrived to meet The Earth is All That Lasts, p. 278). intended to live like the whites. He enlisted as a scout in theup with him, Red Cloud, and other chiefs. Upon going up army and accepted the rank of sergeant. He met on severaland greeting his Rosebud and Slim Buttes nemesis, Crazy In those last four months of his existence on earth, Crazyoccasions with newspaper correspondents. He gave presentsHorse made a gesture that seemed totally unexpected and Horse was a mess of many different emotions, both highs andto his white visitors. But whites often did not know what toaccording to Powers, remarkable.He knelt before him lows. His once-fierce hatred of whites somewhat changed,make of him (Powers, The Killing of Crazy Horse, p. 276). on the ground. Why he did this is unknown. When Sioux perhaps not in benevolence but in at least a willingness toscouts came in to report important matters like the location seek peace and to work with them for the betterment of hisIndicative of this miscommunication was the experience ofof enemies or buffalo they promised to speak the truth and people. He was, at times, at peace with himself, perhaps notLieutenant John Bourke, General Crook\'s adjutant who metsometimes knelt. Perhaps it was in this spirit that Crazy enthusiastic and exuberant but at the very least hopeful, yetwith Crazy Horse at the Red Cloud Agency shortly afterHorse knelt before Crook (Powers, p. 274).at other times he seemed depressed and moody. Those silentthe latter\'s surrender. Crook\'s Aide John Bourke was one and stoic behaviors he was known for came back with aof the first to meet Crazy Horse after his arrival (at the RedBy kneeling before Crook, Chief Crazy Horse by all means vengeance, particularly towards the end when he would noteCloud Agency), and his description of their brief exchangewas not being subservient at all.He was showing respect to the promises broken and how fellow chiefs and warriors whois filled with tension and contradiction. On the very day ofa fellow warrior whom he had indeed bested at times, but 40 May 2023'