During a game for young men, involving a base and .
snowballs that count as "kills", Gall's team was being wiped out and he alone stood .
against eleven others. Gall ducked down behind a ridge and as the eleven boys were .
advancing a gray wolf leapt to the top of the ridge. The boys, thinking that Gall had .
transformed into the wolf ran away, while Gall slipped out the other side of the ridge and .
sprinted towards the base. But for some reason Gall never could peacefully exist with the .
whites. Once when he stole ponies, soldiers came to his village and proceeded to stomp, .
club, and stab him until they thought that he could not recover. His village packed up and .
moved, also thinking that he was dead. Hours later he awoke and, beaten badly, traveled .
twenty miles to the lodge of a friend. Events like this contributed to the rapid rise in .
respect for Gall. Riding with Red Cloud's war parties earned him honor, as well. This .
success led to his association with Sitting Bull in the Sioux wars of the 1870's. It was a .
force led by Gall that repelled the initial attack of Major Marcus Reno in the Battle of .
Little Big Horn, and then inflicted the frontal attack in the charge that was General .
George Custer's last stand. After the battle Gall went with Sitting Bull to Canada. In late .
1880 Gall had a quarrel with Sitting Bull and led his follower's back into the United .
States. On January third, 1881, Gall surrendered and reported to Fort Peck in Montana. .
Knowing that his people had no chance of beating the American army he tried to preserve .
his people's way through peaceful ways. But he never accepted the "white" way. When .
Buffalo Bill contacted him about traveling in a wild west show Gall replied, "I am not an .
animal to be exhibited before a crowd." On December fifth, 1894 Gall passed away in his .
home, the only one of the three chiefs to not die peacefully. .
Crazy Horse was born around 1945 to an Oglala Lakota father and a Brule Lakota .