...The Lakota’s have always been an honorable tribe, and Sitting Bull helped to keep this title for them throughout his life, and even after his death. He exemplifies the characteristics most admired within their culture. He helped to shape the future of Native American culture, even though it did not turn out to be the type of life that any of them would have wanted. No matter how the Lakota tribe felt towards sitting bull at the end of his time, he definitely made a positive impact during his life. Sitting Bull was especially famous for his bravery. He brought courage and triumph to everything he did, from religious gatherings to battles. Part of the reason why Sitting Bull was so popular among the Sioux has to deal with his battle strategies. The Sioux tribes participate in open combat during their battles, which involves hand to hand interactions, showing off their courage and bravery. Cowardice is not appreciated at all during battle, or in any aspect of Sioux life, which is why Sitting Bull stood out as a leader to both his friends and his enemies. He fought in battle with courage and honor, some things that were often found to lack in their enemies. At the beginning of his time as a Lakota warrior, Sitting Bull was a very respectable man. His first time going into battle, he helped to chase after a runaway enemy, killing him before he could kill another man. This was a big deal to himself as well as his tribe because normally young members of the tribe only watch during...
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...Sitting Bull born 1831 and was killed on 1890. Sitting Bull was indigenous man born in North America who played an important role as boss under whom the Sioux tribes joined in their battle for survival on the North American Great Plains. Conceived in the Grand River Valley in what is presently South Dakota, Sitting Bull, or Tatanka Yotanka, got early acknowledgment from his tribe as a warrior and man of vision. When Sitting Bull was a little boy, he participated in numerous events including the typical tribal attack which was set up against those who opposed to his ideas, at that time; for instance, the crow and Assiniboine which were one of the first indigenous groups in great plaint. On the other hand, Bull had almost no contact with Europeans...
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...Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Adora Purnell HIST 102: Survey of U.S. History April 22, 2015 Many may not know the history and story involving such great leaders as Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse who were very adamant and committed to preserving the Lakota’s values and the traditions of their way of life. They were known for having won many of the battles between the Lakota Nation and the U.S. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were two of the greatest leaders of the 19th Century and they fought tirelessly to keep the European settlers from taking their territory away from them in such confrontations as the Fetterman Massacre, and the Battle of Little Big Horn which was the greatest victory that the Native Americans had over the...
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...Year goes to Sitting Bull! Sitting Bull is known as a chief, a man of bravery, leadership, and courage. He struggled for the survival of the lives of him and his people. Fight against white domination and assimilation he died as hero to many Native Americans. Sitting Bull’s Native American name is Tatanka-Iyotanka which describes a buffalo sitting unyieldingly on its rear end and legs. To his people in the Lakota area he’s known as Hunkpapa Lakota chief. He was born in 1831 near the Grand River which would now be called South Dakota. Sitting Bull is the Son of sioux warrior named Returns-Again. He wanted to follow his father's footsteps but lacked interest in warfare. Sitting bull is a man of His leadership qualities...
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...Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake [tˣaˈtˣə̃ka ˈi.jɔtakɛ] in Standard Lakota Orthography,[2] also nicknamed Húŋkešni [ˈhʊ̃kɛʃni] or "Slow";[3] c. 1831 – December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people during years of resistance to United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.[4] Before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had a vision in which he saw many soldiers, "as thick as grasshoppers," falling upside down into the Lakota camp, which his people took as a foreshadowing of a major victory in which a large number of soldiers would be killed.[5] About three weeks later, the confederated Lakota tribes with the Northern Cheyenne defeated the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer on June 25, 1876, annihilating Custer's battalion and seeming to bear out Sitting Bull's prophetic vision. Sitting Bull's leadership inspired his people to a major victory. Months after their victory at the battle, Sitting Bull and his group left the United States for Wood Mountain, North-West...
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...The Battle of the Little Big Horn began on June 25, 1876 near the Little Big Horn River in eastern Montana. The battle took place between the U.S. Cavalry and northern tribe Indians. General George Crook and his column were resting along the rosebud, when randomly a mass force of Lakota warriors came flying out of the mountains. Crook and his men withstood the stampede and prevented the Wyoming colony from being overrun. Sitting Bull was an Indian leader of the Lakota tribe in the 19th century. He built large followings, and his native people knew he wouldn’t surrender or compromise with anyone. Sitting Bull refused to move his people to the whites, reservation, and he was the most important symbol of the Sioux resistance. The incursion allowed...
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...George Custer led his first expedition into the Black Hills in 1874 in order to mine for gold. This land was supposed to belong to the Native Americans under the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, but when choosing between upholding an Indian alliance and gold, the Americans chose the gold. On June 25th, 1876, Sitting Bull’s village of approximately 8000 Cheyenne and Lakota Indians was attacked by General Custer’s Seventh Cavalry in an effort to remove them from the land. While Sitting Bull did not actually participate in the battle, his nephews did. The battle resulted in the deaths of approximately 80 Lakotas and Cheyennes and the complete annihilation of Custer’s troops. The battle gained Sitting Bull fame among Native Americans as well as among whites, but also led to increased tension between Indians and Americans and resentment towards the Indians. In 1877, Sitting Bull moved to Canada due to the constant harassment he was suffering in America. After living in Canada for several years, Sitting Bull surrendered to the U.S. forces and conceded to settle on a reservation. Life was difficult for Sitting Bull on the reservation as the Indian agents did not recognize chiefs. Sitting Bull was, however, able to earn a living from his fame. He charged people to take his picture and even learned to sign his name in cursive so he could sell it to people for as much as two dollars per autograph. William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody earned his nickname from allegedly killing 4280 buffalo...
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...Sitting Bull “We are poor but we are free no white man controls our footsteps if we must die we die defending our rights! That is a war quote from the Chief Sitting Bull. The Great Sioux wars in the year of the 1870s would lead to the Battle of Little BigHorn. Sitting bull and his tribe and confederation of tribes would go into battle with federal troops. The federal troops were lead under George Armstrong Custer. After the several years of war in Canada,Sitting Bull and his tribe finally surrendered to the U.S forces In Sitting Bull’s early life he was the son of the esteemed Sioux warrior named Returns- Again. Sitting Bull always looked up to his father and hoped to...
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...school (Baker, 105). The Indian children had to shave their hair and give up all their traditional clothing; this was the first step towards eliminating the Indian culture. This continued and the kids had to take English names at the expense of their native names and they were required not to even speak their native language. This was the last thing that they were to do but they were also required to abandon their native religion and become Christians (Baker, 105). This went well with their school teachings asserting that their culture was inferior and thus they should adopt the American culture. The Indian students suffered from physical, sexual, and mental abuse. In 1973, some of the schools hosting the Indian children were shut down. Sitting Bull, who was the leader of the Indians in Teton Sioux adventure in his tribe’s fight with the Americans, suffered defeat after killing Custer who was an American General in the Buffalo war. Indian boarding schools started to portray...
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...He lead his people and tribe through many wars and conflicts with US authorities, defeating them often with help from Crazy Horse and a confederation of other tribes. Sitting Bull eventually surrendered to the US forces, saving his people from starvation. In 1890, Sitting Bull was shot and killed by US and Indian agents, but he is remembered for his bravery, strength, and resistance of white domination. The Sioux Tribe is still alive today, though they do not have the strength they had. The Sioux are on of the poorest people in America. Men have no work on the reservation and are no longer able to provide for their families. The Sioux had once owned western South Dakota, and in the middle were the sacred mountains, which contained silver and gold. When Americans found out, they took the mountains from them, robbing the Sioux of billions of dollars. Later the Americans cut giant faces into those mountains, naming it Mount...
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...1 INDIANS Donna Rose History204 Tami Depasse July 14, 2014 2 “Go West Young Man” (Greeley, H. 1865) and West is where we went. Which marked the beginning of the end of the American Indians way of life. A life that was once peaceful and prosperous for the Sioux Indians was about to change drastically. Throughout history, the Sioux Indians, had to fight physical and emotional battles, in trying to retain their land and dignity. Following a time line, the American Indians were treated unjustly, as I will show starting with the Bozeman Trail and continuing on with The Great Sioux Reservation, Custer’s expedition, Battle of the Little Big Horn, Ghost Dancers, Wounded Knee, Citizenship Act of 1924, The Indian Reorganization Act, and The American Movement(AIM). The terrains were rough, being brutal and forcibly tough, especially for the new settlers who came west, when there was talk of gold. John Jacobs and his partner John...
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...Abstract On June 25, 1876, the 7th Cavalry Regiment led by LTC George Armstrong Custer, went into the valley of the Little Bighorn. Unknowingly they were walking into the largest number of Indian warriors the world has ever seen. By the end of the day 210 soldiers would lay dead including Custer himself. The Battle of the Little Bighorn has become the most discussed and most popular battle of the Indian wars. It marked the greatest, and last, battle the American Indians would have over the Untied States Army. It was also the most devastating loss the U.S. Army would have in the Westward expansion of the Untied States. The news stunned the nation and led to an endless debate about the facts, strategy and tactics of the battle that continues to the his day. INTRODUCTION The Battle of Little Bighorn also known as Custer’s Last Stand. Took place in June 1876, in the little Bighorn Valley of Southeast Montana. The number of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors that the 7th Cavalry Regiment faced was approximately 4,500. The battle showed how the failure to use the Principals of War, Mass and Synchronization, helped cause the most devasting defeat that the U.S. Army ever received during the Indian Wars. And how the use of Mass and Concentration could affect a conflict. The primary resources used Custer’s Last Stand by Peter Panzeri and Custer’s Last Campaign by John S. Gray. STRATEGIC SETTING The road to war. In the 1860’s Sioux tribes roamed the great...
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...The Journey of Crazy Horse is a biography written by Joseph M. Marshall, III. It was copyrighted in 2004 and published by the Penguin Group in London. Joseph goes and takes a legend, and shows you that behind the legend of Crazy Horse that he was just a man, like the rest of us. But not only that, he shows us part of the way of the Lakota life during the life of Crazy Horse and how that had changed with the invasion of the whites. The story stars with a little boy born, who is the son of Crazy Horse. This boy is different from the others with the unusually lighter hair color, which gave him his name of Light Hair. This difference is a source of teasing from the other boys. In the early years of his life, we learn that not only is he taken care of by his mother, but by every women in the camp. From them he learned the virtues of gentleness and patience. The games he played with the other boys, as well as the chores given to him by High Back Bone, was the ground work to lead into the skills he would need later in life as a hunter and a fighting man. Around his 9th year, the intrusion of the whites began to appear in the Lakota lands and their trail was beginning to change the way of the buffalo. As Light Hair was growing older, his skills grew close to expert level. In the summer of 1851 his camp moved south closer to Fort Laramie, a checkpoint along the Oregon trial. As Light Hair and is friend, Lone Bear, grew tired of watching the fort there was a meeting with all...
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...the Native Americans would win and it would be the last great battle that George Armstrong Custer would lose. Why did this battle even have to take place? The area where this battle took place was in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Exactly why were the Black Hills of South Dakota so important to the United States that they would violate the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 and sacrifice so many lives for? The principal antagonists were the Seventh Regiment of Cavalry of the United States Army which was under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, and a number of nomadic Indian tribes—Cheyenne, Sans Arcs, Miniconjoux Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Blackfeet, and Hunkpapa Sioux—under the general direction of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, at least for the duration of the battle[i]. The United States Seventh Cavalry battle casualties amounted to 12 officers and 247 enlisted men. Sioux and allied tribe losses have never been accurately tabulated, but the estimates range from as little as 50 warriors up to 200 warriors. In many respects, the Battle of the Little Bighorn was a ‘last gasp’ of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, a final effort to prevent the large-scale white settlement of...
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...with anything—but if the wrong decisions are chosen and not chastised, then this can lead to havoc. The majority of the community has no sense of individuality, don’t have freedom and are dependent on the Council to guide them. (Lowry, 1994) This leads to more control because nobody objects and the Council thinks it is okay to continue enforcing more tainted laws; people shouldn’t control in the first place. The system of law in “Ghost Dance” additionally keeps people on their toes and dependent on America’s administrators. When their home is being destroyed, the Indians offer no solution to the problem, and depend on their leader, Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull gradually warms up with the Americans and offers an alternative of peace, which works for a while, until he gets killed by a policeman by accident. Shocked and horrified by their discoveries, Sitting Bull’s people seek a new leader, a strange farmer, and perform the Ghost Dance, a dance that is thought to provide miracles. (Carnes, 1996) On the contrary, their enemy...
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