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In 1877, Crazy Horse was killed while trying to escape being imprisoned at
Camp Robinson. In the foreground is the reconstructed guard house and historic
marker. "I thought maybe we would go back home when the new grass came; but when
the valleys were green along the creeks, another story came to us. Crazy Horse had
led his starving people into the Soldiers' Town on White River (Fort Robinson) so that
they could eat. Then we thought it would be better to wait until it was time for the
fall hunt. Maybe Crazy Horse and his people would be hunting, and we could join
them, and be happy together again. But bad stories came to us that summer, and just
before the winter we heard that the Wasichus had murdered Crazy Horse at the Soldiers'
Town." from When the Tree Flowered, by John G. Neihardt, pg. 224
University of Nebraska Press, copyright 1951, |
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In 1873, the Red Cloud Agency was moved from Wyoming to this site on the
White River. It guaranteed the Sioux and other tribes food and supplies in exchange
for land ceded to the United States. Later Camp Robinson was established to protect
this agency. "After the Attacking of the Wagons the soldiers went away and our
warriors burned their towns. And when the grass was new again there was a treaty
with the Father in Washington. He said our land would be ours and no Wasichu could
ever come there. You can see his tongue was forked. Red Cloud was not with us
anymore. The Great Father made an Agency for him on the North Platte.
And that was bad; for many of our people went down there to eat Wasichu food, and take the
many presents the Great Father gave them." from When the Tree Flowered by John
G. Neihardt, pg. 43, University of Nebraska Press, copyright 1951. |
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