American Horse

American Horse II ( Wasechun Tashunka; * 1840 in the Black Hills, † December 16, 1908 at the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota) was chief of the Oglala Lakota.

American Horse distinguished himself as a young man struggles against the Absarokee and Shoshone from. As American Horse I 1876 fell in battle, the survivors went into the reserve and American Horse was the recognized leader of his group. At times, he accompanied (as well as Sitting Bull ), the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, but made ​​himself after his return to the reserve unpopular as he prepares for the resolution of the reserve campaigned from 1887 into several sections. Sitting Bull was then an absolute opponent of the resolution because it was associated with significant loss of land. 1890 American Horse was an opponent of the Ghost Dance.

In 1891 he traveled to Washington to improve the living conditions of the Lakota - but he did not have much success. Even more trips to Washington were similar inconclusive.

American Horse died at the Pine Ridge Reservation.

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