Encouraging Bear

Encouraging Bear, also known as Horn Chips (Lakota: Ptehé Wóptuȟ’a), was a noted Oglala Lakota medicine man, and the spiritual advisor to Crazy Horse, a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. Horn Chips was born in 1824 near Ft. Teton. He was orphaned as a young child and raised by his grandmother.

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