Crazy Horse at Camp Robinson, 1877

Crazy Horse exchanged his traditional nomadic way of life for a sedentary reservation one for the good of his people who were starving and dying.

While at Camp Robinson, Crazy Horse was pestered by officers to go to Washington and meet the Great Father and petition him for an agency of his own in Wyoming, at the same time, he was bothered by some of his tribesman to stay because making that journey wasn't in the best interest of his people.

When General Crook was assigned to bring Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce in to custody, Lt. William L. Clark was charged with forming the Camp Robinson Detachment of Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne Indian Scouts for the general to take with him in his pursuit of the Nez Perce. An enlistment paper does exist of Crazy Horse serving only one term of three months, but he never joined his fellow tribesmen having been sick and then receiving mortal wounds in a scuffle at Camp Robinson.

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