Sitting Bull ----------------------
A legendary name, and a legendary Chief who is best known for defeating Custer at Little Big Horn. Sitting Bull was a great leader of the Sioux people, he was a fearless warrior, and a renound organizer of his people. He is also known for joining up with Buffalo Bill and his wild west show. After Sitting Bull retired form the warpath, false rumors began to spred that the aging Chief was returning to war, and inevitably he was murdered in December of 1890, said to be by a group of cowards who had turned against their own people. He was born in South Dakota and was a great Hunkpapa Sioux Chief. Though he never led warriors into battle, he did help to rally an army of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors who were angry at the encroachment of white gold miners into designated Indian lands. Being a Hunkpapa Sioux medicine man and spiritual leader carried as much influence as the mighty chief's Gall, and Crazy Horse. The story I believe to be true about Sitting Bull's death is that on December 15th in 1890, Indian police seized Sitting Bull, and when his follower's tried to rescue him, the battle which ensued resulted in six indian policeman and six Sioux being killed, including Sitting Bull. |