Tasunke Witko (Crazy Horse): A Documentary Film 

My great grandmother was a child survivor of wounded knee. She fled South into Nebraska and was found in the barn of the Gosser Family, German immigrants from near Tionesta, Pennsylvania. The settlement there is named German Hill to this day. They were afraid to turn her in to the US Government, so, being she was fair haired and light skinned (which was also said about Crazy Horse) they adopted her, unofficially. Later, after drought and crop failure, they moved back to Pennsylvania. She met and married my great grandfather here. She didn't tell my grandmother until she was in advanced age and poor health. She said she was Oglala Lakota and that she was just an infant at the battle of the greasy grass, the defeat of Yellow Hair. My first time traveling west, when we got to the black hills, the paha sapa, I felt something stir within me that I had never felt before. Like I belonged, I had come home. I also made it a point to visit the medicine wheel in the Bighorn Mountains where Sitting Bull was given the vision of soldiers falling into camp, a sign of the overwhelming victory ahead. I felt a palpable energy there as well. It was unexplainable, yet a most wonderful experience.

Crazy Horse was many things to his people; a Leader, a Seeker, a Seer, a Warrior, an envoy of Hope ………. But above all, he was a custodian of the land, and a legate of spirituality.

Men and women like him were put here to remind us not to fear but to stand up against evil and opression.thank you Crazy Horse you are still an inspiration even outside your community.May your people run free on the land of your ancestors and preserve the values that tell us apart from people disguised as human but without humanity.

I’m mostly Irish and German but, I am also Cherokee. I’ve always been very proud of that. I have a deep respect for the earth, a connection with animals both wild and domesticated and have tried my best to respect others, even those who are different than me. It really saddens me when I think about the current condition of our country, both with the state of the land and the people. There is so much wisdom that all Native Americans possess. You can feel it in your heart when they speak. They think about what they are going to say and when it isn’t necessary to say something, they don’t. Without the preservation of these people and their heritage, all that wisdom will be lost. That’s something that really needs to be thought about. I pray that they continue to endure and thrive and that we can rebuild this land together. Because we will never do it divided. Rest In Peace Crazy Horse. A warrior who continues to ride through the plains of the spirit world.

Powerful and eye opening. Crazy horse is a true American hero. Much respect

You know, as a white, 33 year old north Dakotan, the first time I went to the black hills, i felt like I was home too. I absolutely felt the great spirit, and I can't wait to return. I haven't traveled much, and I don't care to, as I already know that the Black Hills is my favorite place on earth

You would think the US army had endured enough killing and suffering during the Civil War. I have so much respect for Crazy Horse, He will always be remembered as being perhaps the greatest Chief spiritual, respectful, and fearless.

R.I.P. to the greatest warriors who ever lived! Crazy horse, sitting bull and many others. Real American's at heart! We will always remember

Humility is what defines a leader, driven by bravery

Crazy Horse was the strongest of all the old chiefs. Never signed a treatee and never sat for a photo. Spirit is alive and strong! A-ho!

I think Crazy Horse said “one cannot sell the land upon which the people walk “ . He and other great chiefs will never be forgotten

"They made us many promises, more than I can remember. They broke them all but one. They promised to take our land and they took it." Chief Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Sioux, December, 1890.

Excellent film. Nobody seems to remember, in these turbulent times, when so many voices are calling for justice, nobody seems to remember the stories told here. To say that this is sad, doesn’t even scratch the surface.

In the beginning he describes whenever he comes back to the Black Hills as a sense of coming home. We natives out here in southern California get that feeling too, for our ancestral lands. The world has changed but we are still connected. We'll always be here.

I just saw a documentary on Custer but being indigenous to Northern Mexico, my heart feels full when hearing about Crazy Horse and the Sioux.

I always get goose bumps when i hear about Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull and the Lakota people of that time. Especially when I see the Black Hills. I feel like I was incarnated among them in a past life.

I always felt adesire to know more about Crazy Horse. I admire him tremendously. He was a great leader, and a great human being. RIP Crazy Horse.

Crazy Horse will never be forgotten a true great warrior

Crazy Horse is in my heart forever, and all his people may they live to be happy and old. Give love to Mother Earth and she will give love back.

Why do I always get so emotional when I watch these documentaries.

Respect for All INDIAN'S . WARRIORS for FREEDOM, LIVING LEGEND'S ❤️🔥❤️

I’m only part Native American but I feel drawn to it more as I get older I cannot explain it but I do embrace it

I'm anishnawbe kwe and I truly love and back my people, we will never surrender! Crazy horse was ahead of his time, he was creative, and a great warrior. Ahow!

I love that there are those that can pass these stories on. Nice that they are now recorded but it would mean so much if others were learning and passing on the oral history.

The Americans have taken lands from all indigenous peoples from the day that Christopher Columbus first stepped foot on what is now the Bahamas until today. Crazy Hose should not be forgotten for taking a stand for his people and their land.

Crazy Horse was probably the bravest most honest person ever to live!

This stuff really speaks to me. I truly love how Native American's respected nature and mother earth.

I stand in awe of Crazy horse He was a mighty warrior!! May He Ride across the sky Counting Coup on his Enemies and Hunt in the great Hunting Grounds forever!! Much respect!!

I'm from mixed people,this story is a heartbreaker.Crazy horse was/is/will be a hero...Love & Peace

Great documentary about an absolute heroic legend in every sense of the word Here is a man worthy of adoration, ultimate respect, Love and Learning, Personally i would rather my kid looked up to a person such as this Than some latest pop or movie star etc.

I think that Crazy Horse knew late in his life that the tide of white farmers and prospectors could not be halted. He was a brave soul who dedicated his life to his people. May he forever be remembered.

I can't say why but I have felt Crazy Horse sometimes in my life. He is an important person to me. His body was separated from his spirit but his spirit lives on. I wish his people well.

When you see The Black hills remember me as a defender of the Lakota people. Crazy Horse. Awesome true American hero.

I have a cow head scull in my home hanging on the wall with Crazy Horse wrote on it and I’m very proud and honored to have it !! I’m not full blooded Indian but when I think of these people I think ( Real people) !!

I GOT THE HONOR TO HAVE A CERAMONAL SWEAT WIHT HIS GRANDSON. IT WAS THE GREATEST MOMENT I MY LIFE.THANK YOU MAKA

I learned about him in school in history class it was a great sad story but it had some meanings he will never be forgotten because he is a great man of power.

Beautiful and heartbreaking video.

Thank you for letting use know about the land of CRAZY horse

long live the spirit of crazy horse

My Friend, LeRoy Tyon, Thick Clown Horse, is a great grand nephew of Crazy Horse. He wrote a book called "The Unrelented : The Untold Story of Crazy Horse"

Amazing Story always was fascinated about the famous Indian..called Crazy Horse..his people and the land they so loved!!

GREAT WARRIOR!!! R.I.P my Brother 🌻✌️

That was very touching. Thanks to the uploader and even more the storytellers and producers for sharing this great human's story.

Great Soul....Great Spiritual Master...Crazy Horse!

Custer was warned many times by his scouts and even by General Terry that the camp was huge and yet he attacked anyway. In all honesty, he deserved what he got.

i have no words for how much i respect Crazy Horse and what he lived and died for. I hope to one day visit and walk the land he fought for, to pay my respects to him and also his people. His story has changed my life.

Lakota ❤️ people thank you 🙏

Yes, I'm Lakota and whenever I come to the Black hills I don't want to leave because i feel like I'm home. Also a few times I felt the deep sorrow of my ancestral people...the woman who whose burden is the family. To me, Crazy Horse was the last free Sioux man. He was a trailblazer.

CRAZY HORSE....Ridin' the Wind so free. A Warrior of Great Strength, Wisdom, Humility, Love @ Harmony. "Wakan-Tanan Kici Un" 🐺 May the Great Spirit Bless You

Thank you. I felt a great sadness inside me for what the Lakota ... and all of us, have lost in the decimation of the Nations who lived in and revered the land we now call the USA. I also experienced an overwhelming wonder and admiration for the people and the true Greatness of Crazy Horse and his contemporaries. It leaves me with a sorrow for what the settlers and the Government took and relentless struggle of the people to keep what God or the Great Spirit had given them.

From Aotearoa , great warrior ! What a man ! Respect to The natives of the Americas , beautiful people of the lands .

To this day, I have pain in my heart for the indians and the land that they were forced from. They lived in harmony with the land.

All my relations, we humbly thank you for walking this world for a while and teaching and protecting the people. We thank you for all you gave, for all u endured and all you preserved. Without you we would not be here. Walk in power, walk with the ancestors now your work is done. All my relations, one nation!

The difficult story of a pure and beautiful soul....If you go to the Black Hills alone, his voice can still be heard...on the wind.....

Beautiful man, beautiful people!

He was truly a very heroic man.

As a boy growing up in the 60’s I hunted along with my father and brother in the Black Hills near Hullet Wyoming... I knew the minute i started hunting in this area it was a sacred place..we would see 50-60 deer a day, sage hens and wild turkey everywhere every stream full of trout..the land was so beautiful and so full of game we knew right away why this place was so special for the native Americans..now today over 75% of all wild animals and fish are gone from this earth..since 1970 we have lost 3/4 of all the wildlife...my God forgive us..

"They thought they can burry us,but we are seeds!" My heart crys for all the inative American tribes,They may kill the bodies but never their spirits! Time to take a stand and come together!

Brilliant!! May His Spirit be in each one of us!! A true human being!!

I roam the wilderness, I hunt off the land and thank it, I fast in isolation... I have not seen the vision yet. But I am always open.... Crazy Horse is a great inspiration to me!

Everything that goes around, comes around. May his spirit and other great warriors return to help Mother Earth.

they all speak so reverently, so calm...the background music matches their tone....listening to them speak and hearing the music is very soothing...

I found a great book about General George Custer’s accounts written by a one-time author. But.. here in the lands of the southern Utes, our stories are centered around Chief Ouray, the wonderful leader who was forced to ride the train with his best warriors to Washington D.C. to negotiate the lands and hopes the Ute tribes ..who were trouble makers supposedly. Ouray would have to do his best to save his people But.... Chief Ouray was famous after President Lincoln met with him. But ...The southern Utes were put into the reservation spaces we now know in Ignacio, Colorado. (Ouray became the name of a mining town, where I worked for a German couple at their lodge as a teenager. And...Chief Ouray was handsome. Chipeta..his wife, was honored a lot in Western Colorado for being his faithful partner. (Thanks for this lovely documentary on Crazy Horse who was said to be truly magnificent! ) Famous author, and film maker, Larry McMurtry I believe wrote solely about Crazy Horse in one of his books I read about a great horseman and Lakota spiritual leader. Thanks for your message.

A warrior who did his job in his time. Thanks for posting

Thank you for your sharing of this important man. Your quiet respect in the telling have helped me know what he represented.

I see these mountains and I feel like I'm home. My body is born in Europe, but the heart in Paha Sapa. The teachings of the Mother of the Earth and the nation of Lakota give me power on my way through life. I believe I will see Paha Sapa in this life, attracting me as a magnet.

As long as human beings learn about, teach others about and remember our ancestors they live among us.

Years back an uncle living in Texas started on the task of documenting our family history. He found written records and 1 tin back photo of my Great Grandmother , who was said to be the eldest daughter of Crazy Horses brother who reportedly was also a chief. I don't have his name nor was any recorded info available as it was a!l destroyed in a courthouse fire in Oklahoma where the Indian records were stored. Go figure. The info found was that she was a gift of Life for a Life. The story passed on said they were in a wagon train headed for the Oklahoma landrush when influenza hit and they were behind the last wagon of sick , stayed to care for those along with 2 other wagons. On their return to join the wagon train they came across an injured Indian boy. They cared for his sounds and nursed him back to health. He directed them to his father's camp , where the grateful father give the daughter for the return of his only son. This is a beautiful story whether trueor not , we can't confirm it , but the photo of her was striking. A black and white , of course , but her eyes stood out also as they appear very light to white. I have always been a rbel who has sought the Earth's comfort and spent as much time in nature as possible. Studied the art of healing herbs and nutrition that feeds the body not the mind. I searched thru many forms of natural healing during my hears of raising my children and raised them as close to thd an isn't path as I could. I was told my skull bones are indicative of Indian heritage , the way the are positioned and spaced. That was according to forensic science that was told to us in a high school assembly in 1969 , by a police detective! After the feds had been there previously and burned three tables of marijuana so we all knew what it smelled like cuz we has boys coming home from nam who had drug problems/needs. It was available the next day on smokers corner ! Go figure it saved our minds and lives from the constant lies and confusion of the day. Just look where the world is today , 7/21/2020. Even more bizzare !!!

Beautiful and very historical souls who guides us my ancestors are from there and my ancestors speak to me through the land flute plays and brings my heart to a great place in the lands of our ancestors.God Bless you and thank you 🙏 for crazy horse information. The picture of Crazy Horse is a great likeness. Thank you 😊 about his ability to grow in his life time being that he knew what brought his spirit and wisdom in his soul after taking his walk , always learning about his dreams coming true!

A BEAUTIFUL STORY AND VERY WELL TOLD. HE WAS A GREAT MAN AND I WOULD OF LIKED TO MET HIM

"REMEMBER ME..." I could never forget you, Tasunke Witko... Tanka...Woplia... Pilamayaye Mitakuye Oyasin

Ive been to the Black Hill and its so beautifull i could the sacred energy of every thing around me my late boyfreind took to feild there we sat on large rock just looking then bull buffalo and his herd appeared the sound of thousands heart beats this was so inspiring this was first time seeing a wild buffalo ill never forget it

There should be a monument to Crazy Horse in DC but nothing could be as grand as his Black Hills he Loved as his Spirit. HO!

They were with us at Standing Rock. Bless all our Warriors 💎💚💎

Very moving film. Wopila! I've met some great native elders here in Ontario, Canada. Their influence on me, a settler, is positive and unending. I have not met people in my settler culture who are like very deep, very virtuous people such as Tasunke Witko. Only one settler person here, only one. We are an undeveloped people always hunting for more- we are The Ones Who Go Crazy For Gold. I support Chase Iron Eyes and those who held their ground at Standing Rock. And I met Orval Looking Horse once here in Canada, the privilege of a lifetime.

From childhood I was always attracted to everything that was Indian and strange is that I even adopted a nickname, my friends treated me during adolescence by Shane. In all the children's games, where we recreated Indian scenes I always assumed the Indian role, later I researched everything that was connected with Indian Nation and still today I listen Indian shaman music even driving. The Cheyenne nation seems to have been always part of my unconscious and every time I watch a documentary of this level all I vibrate without realizing well why. Well done, many thanks!

A Salute to you "Crazy Horse" from a brother at arms. Warrior for my people.

I have always admired Crazy Horse! and always will! Thank you for this story of him!

The best documentary film I have ever seen!

Mad props Lakota Nation, I feel connected to Crazy horse Amazing soul!!! 🌟

What a beautiful video. Thanks for posting this.

Never forget crazy horse a true sioux lakota warrior he defended his people an land to the end he refused to be in reservations but because his people were starving really bad he had no choice because he never wanted his people hurt its understandable but he still refused being slaved that shows you his spirit an his warrior spirit crazy horse gives me inspiration thru struggle and sacrifice Rest in peace one the greatest warriors in history 💯

Since I was a child I've always had emotions towards Native Americans, especially the Lakota Sioux, in my early 50's I had a regression and was evident that I was shot in the snow by a man wearing a long blue coat with muzzle loading musket, I was a young boy at the time as I remember looking down at my feet and saw small moccasins just before my story ended. I wish this regression had been recorded as it has become unclear as too what else transpired. One thing makes me realize is that this world is a temporary place for the material body and it is only a temporary stop before we go to our eternal place in the spiritual world with our creator Krishna.Mitokuyo Oyasin. 🙏

Only a few minutes in and the scenery is just got me ! Beautiful magical

yes Crazy Horse was a loner .... never wanted fame but loved his people and lived and fought for them.... he did not want fame.... but for what he did for his people ..... he reflected in his being a loner and going off.... insight of what you really are ... which a lot of us could learn from....almost perfect human specimen ....

Rodney A. Grant did an amazing job as Crazy Horse. He is a grossly underrated actor.

Still to this day, i will never forget

God bless Lakota and everyone of us in this timecorn19 can't change history as much we all want ✌ plz

Thank you for uploading. Very informative, correct and respectful, with no exaggerated narration, music or other effects.

Hoka Hey!,,, He was one of the greatest to walk this land,, A true human. We should all seek to walk in his ways. respect, Aho mitakuye oyasin! wast'e yu'wast'e...RAM

Very inspirational to know the true history, thank you for sharing

Even the Crow Indians say that Custer was killed down by the river and I even read one account where after the battle the Lakota went down to grab Custer's body and placed him along his brother who was up on the hill in order to tell them apart. That is one account I heard. Very interesting.

Beautifully made film, telling the story of the most famous of all the Lakota warrior leaders and protectors of his peoples ways and their right to exist as a free people.

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for this video. I like listening too their stories of truth & sacrifice.

Utter Champion Founding Father Chieftain Crazy Horse! Admiration HONOR And Respect! Freedom Justice Peace For Our Families!

Crazy Horse, such an awesome name. I love how the natives were so much fun with their chief names

this was beautiful mita kuye owasin waste chankpi opi forever are where i was raised and i follow crazy horses ways of life,also others like that of morning star/dull knife/littlewolf,are my people may we never forget what weve fought so hard to keep

He will live forever in my heart

Brilliant. Thank you.