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CROW KING, CHIEF WHO DEFIEDMEDICINE MENCRAZY HORSE was brave with a berserker recklessness; Sitting Bull’s daring was tempered with prudence ; but another Sioux chief showed a higher form of courage—the courage to defy superstition and scoff at the pretensions of the medicine men at the height of their power among his people. He was Crow, King or The Crow (Kangi—“crowYatapi— “king” or “chief’) of the Hunkpapas.High Bear, Crow King’s brother, had fallen ill of tuberculosis which the big medicine man of the Hunkpapas called the evil spirit, whereupon Crow King told him to cast it out and he would pay him well. Although the medicine man used all his charms and 1 incantations, High Bear still coughed.So the sorcerer changed his “medicine,” frequently finding a new excuse for doing so and always charging Crow King a certain number of ponies for each new charm used. Other medicine men were called in and soon Crow King’s herd was almost wiped out. Then High Bear died.Crow King decided to put thesequacks out of business. He summonedall of them to a feast, where he asked to be allowed to see the charm by which each worked his wonders. Bach one proudly produced his fetish—a bear’s claw, a rabbit’s foot, a wolfs eye and a weasel’s skin. Then Crow King calmly dumped them into the fire.The medicine men were horrified; they expected to see the defiler drop dead. But Crow King defied them to prove the potency of their charms by bringing vengeance down upon him* From that day the power of the medicine men among the Sioux waned..Crow King had been a great warrior of the Hunkpapas. He had fought at Fort Phil Kearney. At the Battle of Little Big Horn he had led thh first charge which swept over the hill where Custer made his last stand, and the shock of this onset had so shattered the resistance of Custer’s men that their, annihilation a few minutes later wasmade certain, fiie had fled to Canada with Sitting Bull, but later he had denounced that leader as a coward and fraud and had brought his band back to the United State to shrrendfr. | -When he nettled on Btahdlng Rock rec^rvation ike became * leader of theprogNHMlve elementpapas. Because of bin prowess in hat tie and his r . - -honored him, but U the daydeath, in.•*v ■ 1 ...,
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Darlington Herald
Darlington, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 06, 1922
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