Crazy Horse Agency

PHOTO FROM FORT LARAMIE TREATY SIGNING. (left to right) Spotted Tail, Morningstar aka Dull Knife, Old Man Afraid of His Horse, Lone Horn, Whistling Elk, Pipe, and Slow Bull. We have two grandfathers in this photo. Seated second to the far left is Morningstar aka Dull Knife, the Cheyenne head man. In American archives he is identified as Roman Nose. In reality we told the Americans that Dull Knife was visiting many tipis during our time there so we kiddingly referred to him as "a roaming nose" but the Americans took it literally and now the American records has him recorded as Roman Nose. Seated in the center is Lone Horn, Crazy Horse's maternal uncle. Lone Horn submitted a proposal for an agency apart from Spotted Tail's and Red Cloud's agency. It encompassed the graves of all our family's relatives inside the agency (today they call the agencies reservations) and was adopted by Crazy Horse to be the template of the Crazy Horse Agency which encompassed the Black Hills also. The American military granted him this agency but before it was implemented, Crazy Horse was assassinated with a soldier's bayonet. The agreement for the Crazy horse Agency still sits in Washington DC as a classified document.