Your Turn

WHO IS CRAZY HORSE? is a project I have created in the hopes of promoting the awareness of and interest in the histories, cultures, and futures of American Indians. I began by choosing five Native American individuals: Crazy Horse, Sherman Alexie, Sacheen Littlefeather, Jim Thorpe, and Annie Dodge Wauneka. For each individual, I created a written piece that I have posted on my blog, www.whoiscrazyhorse.blogspot.com, and an art piece that I have used to make 1-inch buttons.

These buttons will be sold for 2 dollars each, and all the money will be donated to Adopt-a-Native Elder; a program that provides food, clothing, medicine and other materials to traditional Elders living in the Navajo Nation. Order forms will be provided to NSCDS students. If you don't attend this school but are still interested in buttons, email me at hgraybuttons@gmail.com and we can see if we can work something out. To those who continue to show interest and support in this project, I thank you. I also encourage all followers to like the Who is Crazy Horse? facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Who-is-Crazy-Horse/127701610638143

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The Navajo Nation, extending into the states of Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, is a place rich in history, culture, and beauty. There is so much to learn from and understand about this place. A largely important element to this learning and understanding involves digging for information and asking questions. In a place such as the Navajo Nation where there is such profound beauty in the land and people, why are poverty and disease so widespread? The answers lie in the folds of history, and I encourage you all to search for them. 

If you are thorough in your search, you will no doubt come across Annie Dodge Wauneka. Continue to her page to learn more.

"He was the greatest athlete who ever lived. 

What he had was natural ability. There wasn't anything he couldn't do. 

All he had to see is someone doin' something and he tried it...and he'd do it better."

  — 1912 Olympic silver medalist Abel Kiviat

And the Oscar goes to...

 

Accepting the award for Marlon Brando and The Godfather is Sacheen Littlefeather.

Evolution

A Poem by Sherman Alexie

Buffalo Bill opens a pawn shop on the reservation

right across the border from the liquor store

and he stays open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

and the Indians come running in with jewelry

television sets, a VCR, a full-length beaded buckskin outfit

it took Inez Muse 12 years to finish. Buffalo Bill

takes everything the Indians have to offer, keeps it

all catalogues and filled in a storage room. The Indians

pawn their hands, saving the thumbs for last, they pawn

their skeletons, falling endlessly from the skin

and when the last Indian has pawned everything

but his heart, Buffalo Bill takes that for twenty bucks

closes up the pawn shop, paints a new sign over the old

calls his venture THE MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES

charges the Indians five bucks a head to enter.

Welcome

"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."

                                         Mahatma Gandhi

 

Continue to the Crazy Horse page to answer the question: Who is Crazy Horse?