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| 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). |
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