Along these draws of Porcupine creek, Chief Bigfoot's doomed
band fled to the safety of the Red Cloud agency at Pine Ridge.
Seven miles south of here the Seventh Calvary intercepted
them at Wounded Knee. Somewhere along this creek, the
grieving parents of Crazy Horse secretly returned his body
to the earth. An army guard named William Gentles, had
stabbed Crazy Horse through the side as his arms were held
behind him. Crazy Horse's dying thoughts were for the well
being of his people. He told his father, "Tell the people it is
of no use now for them to depend upon me." It was not enough
to kill him, today the descendants of Crazy Horse must fight
those that would sully and cheapen his memory by placing his
name and imaginary picture on bottles of beer.
                                 Postscript:
After the Stroh  Brewery Company purchased G. Heilman Brewing
Company in 1996 the Stroh family worked to settle the dispute
over "CrazyHorse Malt Liquor."  In 2001,  John Stroh III read an
apology to the family of Crazy Horse and gave a gift of seven horses,
thirty-two blankets and thity-two braids of sweetgrass and tobacco,
to settle the suit.  Seth Big Crow,  administrator  of the Crazy Horse
estate accepted  and acknowleged the importance of the apology to
the Lakota People. (41).