by Tashunca-uitco on Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:31 pm
When I was a kid of seven or so - we had some great TV from the States - 'Bewitched', 'Hogan's Heroes', 'Top Cat' (can you name them all? I can!) - but our favourite was the show about Custer and the 7th.
I was fascinated by 'Crazy Horse' - and still am. This name was taken when I joined CC - so I took his Oglaha name 'Tashunca-Uitco' (or 'Tashunca-Witco') = 'his horse is crazy'.
I still feel kin-ship with this intelligent, spiritual man who couldn't adjust to a changing world - and fought to preserve what he thought was the right way of living - free and wild - in direct contrast to the materialism and greed of the settlers.
I feel the same way, living in a country that is rapidly giving up it's individual freedom to a Government determined to criminalise it's own populace - whilst refusing to protect them from crime.
I'm not on some 'wounded knee' PC kick - he just happens to be one of my heroes - as is Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. But then so are Jesus Christ, Mohamed, Alexander, Leonidas and the 400, St Francis of Assisi and a hundred other unrelated people that lived lives that instruct.
'White man came across the sea
He gave us pain and misery
We fought him hard
We fought him well
Out on the plains - we gave him hell