More on historical memory, this time from the Rapid City Journal who reports on the Crazy Horse Ride meant to honor the war leader. Excerpt:
About 200 horses and riders are expected to participate in the ninth annual Crazy Horse Ride from Fort Robinson, Neb., to Pine Ridge from June 5-8.
The ride is to honor veterans, according to organizer Charles “Bamm” Brewer.
The ride begins on Monday, June 5, at Fort Robinson, Neb., where Lakota leader Crazy Horse was killed in 1877, and ends Thursday, June 8, at the powwow grounds in Pine Ridge for the start of the Veterans Powwow. The powwow will run through Sunday, June 11.
The ride begins at Fort Robinson, Brewer said, in honor of Crazy Horse. “Crazy Horse rode into Fort Robinson; he never got to ride out of there,” he said. “We’re going to ride out of there for Crazy Horse in honor of all veterans, the only warriors who come close to Crazy Horse.”
The same thing happened with Wounded Knee in the 1980s with the beginning of the Big Foot Memorial Ride, which followed the path Chief Big Foot and his band of Minneconjou took to Wounded Knee in 1890.
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