Show CROW KING CHIEF WHO DEFIED MEDICINE MEN C CRAZ raza HORSE was brave with a berserker recklessness sitting lulls hulls flaring was tempered with prudence but bu another sioux klous chief showed a mg higher lier form of courage tho the courage to defy superstition and scoff at the pretensions pret visions of the medicine men at the height of their power among liis his people lie ile was crow king or the crow kingi kang crow latapi aalt pl king g or chief of the ailigh dear crow kings brother had fallen ill III of tuberculosis which the big medicine nian man of the Hunk papas culled called the evil spirit whereupon crow king told him to east cast it out and he would pity pay him well although the medicine man used all his charnis charms and incantations high bear still coughed cou glied so the alie sorcerer changed his medicine frequently finding a new excuse for doing so and always charging crow king it a certain number of ponies for or pach each new charm used other medicine men were called in and soon crow aln kings s lierd herd was almost wiped out then bligh lear bear died crow king decided to put these thesa quacks out of business ile he summoned all of them to a feast where beasker he asked to be allowed to see the harm by chich each worked ills fits wonders each one proudly produced ills his fetish a bears claw a rabbits foot a wolfs eye and a weasels skin then crow king calmly dumped them into the fire the ni edlIne men were horrified they expected to see the denier defiler drop dead iliad hut but crow king defied them thein to brove the potency of their charms by bringing vengeance down upon ullon him film from that day the power of the medicine meu men among the sioux waned crow king had been bee a a great warrior of the ile he had fought nt at fort phil kearney Kc arney at the battle 0 of little laig horn lie he had bad led the first charge which swept over the ilia hill where custer made his last stand and the shock of lids onset had so shattered the rel resistance stance of custers men that their annihilation a few minutes later was made cerculo cerca ln lie he hit had fled to canada with bluing sluing itten guil bull I 1 but later lie had denounced that leader eader ns as a coward and a frai fraud id and had baroug brought bit hla his band back to the united st stiles ties to surrender when lie he settled led on Sl clandine andine rock reservation lie became a 11 loader leader of the progressive element dei rent among the blunk papas because of his probest prowess in bat tie anil and his statesmanship tiey had tio honored nored him but to the day of 0 hla his death in 1883 they held alilin in high tej eu esteem because by one bold he 9 treed freed iberi from |