Tonight I will go to bed and fall asleep with Crazy Horse in my thoughts, contemplations and prayers...
Have just completed Mr. Thomas Powers, "The Killing of Crazy Horse. It is my belief to be the best book ever written and or published about Crazy Horse. I have read several books with Crazy Horse as main title or with other Lakota, but, Mr. Powers really dove head first into his study, logic and presentation of Crazy Horse. If there was an agenda, it was simply to explain in close detail what "really" happened to Crazy Horse. This book very well could have been a quick read, but as I have done in the past - once I got to a certain place in an excellent book, I begin to pace myself and have in fact rationed some of my readings to no more than a chapter a day/night. I say with this extraordinary writing, so very much is covered between the book covers that one has "a picture" painted in mind of what and how Crazy Horse was forced to live and just how cowardly his assassination so truly was...
...there was a one inch "accidental" entry wound by bayonet to his lower back that was done so with such force, it was pushed damn near through the Cheif...a bruise developed on his lower torso from where the blade just about exited. Crazy Horse suffered for many hours. His Mom and Dad present with him when Crazy Horse left this Earth Mother of ours.
I have avoided the racial passions that dwell well within my heart, mind and Spirit's. Have done so as an experiment...although I am compelled to share that I no longer share any respect for Little Big Man at all. As the guard was a coward - so was Little Big Man.
...I considere this my review of an excellent book, first of all. Then I simply gave a brief description of the assassination of Crazy Horse. That is all.
Mentioned no colours of skin tonight. Nor fueled my passions with the fire of anger and loathing that remains alive in me to this day.
I say no more.
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