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Native Americans
The United States Grows
(1865-1900)

Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   high interest, readability grades 3 to 5
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   5.74

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    ongoing, scalp, warrior, adult, resistance, victory, attack, stepmother, loss, wound, against, search, order, tribe, lived, colonel
     content words:    Some Indians, Crazy Horse, Rapid Creek, South Dakota, General George Crook, Chief Sitting Bull, Sitting Bull, Little Bighorn River, On June, Colonel George Custer

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Crazy Horse
By Cathy Pearl 		  
1     Not every Indian went to live on a reservation quietly. Some Indians fought back in order to keep their way of life the same. One of the Indians who fought back was Crazy Horse.
 
2     Crazy Horse was born in the 1840s. He was born along Rapid Creek in the area that would become South Dakota. His father was a medicine man who was also named Crazy Horse.
 
3     His mother died when he was young. His father then took her sister as a wife. This woman helped to raise Crazy Horse.
 
4     Crazy Horse started witnessing what the army did to his people at a very young age. This helped create his feelings toward the white settlers and their army.
 
5     When he was about sixteen, Crazy Horse went on his first raid as an adult warrior. He went on a raid with other members of the tribe. They raided another Indian tribe: the Crows.

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