Crazy Horse and Custer: Born Enemies

In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people’s resistance against the white man’s invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the invading US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies, and at the height of the war, they crossed paths for the last time. Their opposing destinies culminated in the infamous Battle of the Greasy Grass, as the Lakota called it, or the Battle of the Little Bighorn, as it was called by the Euro-Americans.