T?ašú?ke Witkó (Crazy Horse)

Crazy Horse was the battlefield tactician whose leadership helped destroy Custer's command at the Little Bighorn in 1876, following his earlier decisive role annihilating Captain William Fetterman's entire eighty-man detachment near Fort Phil Kearny in 1866. A intensely private Oglala Lakota war leader, he refused to be photographed throughout his life, believing the practice would somehow steal a piece of himself, and no confirmed authentic photograph of him exists despite decades of claims. Pressed by starvation and relentless army pursuit following the Little Bighorn's aftermath, he surrendered at the Red Cloud Agency in 1877. He was killed months later during a confused struggle while being taken to a guardhouse, bayoneted by a soldier under circumstances that remain disputed — whether an act of resistance, a misunderstanding, or a deliberate killing has never been conclusively settled.