Crazy Horse
Tashunca-Uitco, c1849–77, leader of the Oglala Sioux tribe: defeated General George Custer at battle of Little Bighorn.
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How to use Crazy Horse in a sentence
Crazy Horse cars jangled down the main Main Street to the docks.
A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River | Barlow CumberlandOur contracting freight agent on the Coast at that time was a fellow so erratic that he was nicknamed "Crazy-horse."
Golden Stories | VariousRight in the midst of the strike Crazy-horse wired that he had secured a big silk shipment for New York.
Golden Stories | VariousThe brilliant young war leader, Crazy Horse, was appointed to lead the charge.
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains | [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. EastmanCrazy Horse loved horses, and his father gave him a pony of his own when he was very young.
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains | [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman
British Dictionary definitions for Crazy Horse
Indian name Ta-Sunko-Witko . ?1849–77, Sioux Indian chief, remembered for his attempts to resist White settlement in Sioux territory
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Cultural definitions for Crazy Horse
A Sioux chief of the nineteenth century. Crazy Horse was one of the leaders of the Native American forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. (See Custer's last stand.)
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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