biography
| name: |
Crazy Snake
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originally Chitto Harjo
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1846–1912)
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| biography:
| North American Indian Creek chief, born in the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). In 1897 he set up the ‘Snake Government’, a traditional body designed to counter the legal dissolution of tribal governments. A Snake-led uprising (1901) proved unsuccessful. He was a great orator and advocate for the traditional ways of his people. |
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