burnt said:
Well that would have been pretty interesting to hear! Maybe you can give a written version on here for us :?:
Just for you Burnt the VERY Condenced version :wink:
He was born Jumping Badger to Her Holy Door and Returns Again in March 1831 On the Grand River of the South Dakota Territory
He was nicknamed "Slow" as a young boy
He killed his first bull buffalo at the age 10 years
Participated in his first battle with the Crow Indians at the Age 14
His father gave him his new name Sitting Bull after that battle
At the age of 25 he became the leader of the Strong Hearts Society.
We was a Medicine man, Mystic, Priest and Chief of the Sioux. all at a young age.
He was held responsible for the Battle of the Little Big Horn but he was not one of the Chiefs that actually faught with Custer and the 7th on June 25 1876. He advised Crazy Horse, Gall and Two Moons but he stayed with the women, children and elderly to make sure they were safe and out of harms way.
The battle was over the Black Hills which had been given to the Sioux in the Laramie Treaty of 1868 but after the discovery of gold the US government took them back and wanted to force the natives onto Reservations.
After the battle he and thousands of his followers was chased all over eastern Montana By Colonel Nelson Miles until they finally crossed the border into Canada in the Spring of 1877. He was greeted at the border by Major James Walsh and the laws of Canada were explained to him.
They stayed suffering from disease and starvation. Some gave up and went back to the US Reservations. But Sitting Bull and a couple hundred stayed until July 1881 when he was finally talked into returning to the US by a Trading Post Operator in Wood Mountain by the name of Jean Louis Legare.
He surrender at Fort Buford in North Dakota on July 20, 1881, He was the last Sioux Chief to surrender his gun to the US Government.
He was taken to prison for two years at Fort Randell and then allowed to live with his followers at Standing Rock Res. near Fort Yates. where they were taken from Fort Buford.
He spent about 4 months in 1885 touring with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show then returned to Stand Rock
After rumors of a Sioux up rising being planned the Indian Agency sent 40 police officers to arrest Sitting Bull on Dec 15 1890. When they arrived at his home in the very early hours they surrounded the house and arrested him. A fight broke out between the Police and Sitting Bulls followers and the results were 8 natives and 4 policemen dead. Sitting Bull was shoot in the head and died and his son Crowfoot was also among the dead.
His body was buried out side the gates at Fort Yales until 1953 when his body was moved to Mobridge South Dakota by his family.
It was the filling in in between the lines that turned it into a one hour speech. :wink:
