Crazy Horse literally His-Horse-is-Crazy; ca. 1840 ? September 5, 1877) was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He fought against the U.S. federal government to preserve the land and traditions of the Lakota way of life, participating in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. After surrendering to U.S. troops under General Crook in 1877, the prominent leader was fatally wounded by a military guard while resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska.