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Woptura (Horn Chips)
Woptura (1837) was a pejuta wicasa wakan, a holy man and medicine man in tradition of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). Woptura means: to shoot off a piece of buffalo horn with an arrow; part of the whole. When he had to register himself for the federal government of the United States his name was translated as Horn Chips. Woptura lived in the time and with Tasunke Witko: the Sacred, Mystical and Inspired Horse, better known as Crazy Horse. Woptura was 4 years older than Crazy Horse and later on he became a pejuta wicasa wakan and companion of Crazy Horse.

Woptura and Crazy Horse fought for the freedom of their people but as a Nation the Lakota lost their freedom. Woptura was born in 1837 and lived as a free person at the Northern part of the Paha Sapa, the Sacred Black Hills (South Dakota). Ultimately he was forced to live on a reservation like the rest of his Nation. Woptura went over to the Spirit world on January 4, 1916, at Eagle Nest Butte, close to the Badlands.