crazy horse went into battle with the aid of wakan tanka prepared for him by a friend or mentor. whites called important chips, or just chips. it was when chips it interpreted for crazy horse the meaning of his vision many years earlier. in the vision he had seen them a man emerging from a lake on a horse. this man told crazy horse that he should not tie up his horse's tail as other warriors did when he went to war, and that he should dress in a certain way, that he could not be killed by bullets, and and he could only be killed if someone held him. later, when chips prepared protective charms for crazy horse. he directed that crazy horse should wear only one feather, plucked from the center of the tale of a war eagle. chips made from a whistle to blow as he rode into battle. about the year 1862 or 1863 according to red feather, his brother-in-law, chips prepared for crazy horse the most powerful of all his protections. it was made from iraq trailed through the center which crazy horse was to wear on a thong under his left arm. another tiny stone he were behind his left ear, such