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Description: "Tashunka Witko," Oglala Lakota Sioux
Warrior. Crazy Horse was born around 1845 on the Republican
River that traces the Nebraska-Kansas border. He was raised
with tribal traditions of generosity, courage and
self-denial. He ordered the attack on Lt. Col. George A.
Custer's Seventh Cavalry and never surrendered the lands
claimed by his people. When asked where were his lands, he
replied, "My lands are where my dead lie buried."
The Crazy Horse knife sports a handle made of wood from a
grove of aspen trees, which grew on the sacred Pine Ridge
Reservation land in southern Nebraska. The Aspen is revered
by the Sioux Nation as the "Tree of Life." The 4 1/2" x 1
1/2" blade is made from knapped obsidian, a hard volcanic
glass. Its color is variegated rust black and is affixed to
the hilt with leather strips. Horsehair tassels dangle from
brass cones, threaded with bone beads lashed to the leather
binding. Four brass tacks represent the four seasons. The
fringed buckskin sheath is brain-tanned, hand-made and
beaded with a familiar Sioux pattern. A certificate of
authenticity is included. 1,847 knives — commemorating the
year Crazy Horse was born — will be produced.
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