Touch The Clouds And The Final Hours

Touch the Clouds — Maȟpíya Íčahtagya — deserves specific mention in any account of Crazy Horse’s death and burial because he was present at the death and his presence has been recorded in the documentary sources.

Touch the Clouds was a Miniconjou Lakota leader, physically very large — contemporary accounts describe him as over six feet tall, unusual for the period.

He was a friend and ally of Crazy Horse and had come to Fort Robinson at the time of Crazy Horse’s death.

He was in the adjutant’s office when Crazy Horse died.