1831-1890 Sitting Bull
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Sitting Bull's Signature
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Sitting Bull, who was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, fought with his people against the US government policies within the 1870s.
After the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, one of the most significant and victorious battles for the Native Americans, Sitting Bull's leadership rose due to his bravery and prophecies of Indian Victories. The US army responded to this battle a year later in 1877. The government's soldiers force many of the Lakota's to surrender; however, Sitting Bull refused to back down and led his band to Wood Mountian. He would stay there until 1881, at which most of his band and many other Indians began assimilating into the American culture.
Joining the white Culture, sitting bull worked as a performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Later he would move to the Standing Rocks Indian Reservation in South Dakota; however, in fear that Sitting Bull would begin Radical Indian movements, the Indian Agency police killed him on December 15th, 1890.
1 comment:
It must have been so shameful and disgusting for Sitting Bull to go from a prominent leader among his people and highly regarded to a cheap performer in a crass, probably satirical show. It's like if the president was forced to resign and joined the circus. Well...okay bad example, but you get what I mean.
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