Sitting+Bull's+Cabin

**Sitting Bull's Cabin**
http://image46.webshots.com/46/9/67/49/2947967490087440692kXKoAX_ph.jpgTatanka-Iyotaka "Sitting Bull" was killed in this cabin on December 15th 1890.

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Sitting Bull was Considered a holy man, of the Hunkpapa Lakota. As a child Sitting Bull was named "Jumping Badger." Sitting Bull had been in his first war at the age of 14 against the Crow. His name was changed from Jumping Badger to Sitting Bull by the fact that his father was so full of pride that he gave his son his name of Sitting Bull. At the age of 25 Sitting Bull became the leader of the "Strong Heart Warrior Society" and he later on joined the " Silent Eaters" a tribal welfare group. Sitting Bull was an amazing tactical warrior. In 1857 he was named "tribal war cheif."


 * //His Life//**

In the early 1800s the Lakota tribe lived on the Great Plains.They weren't the only tribe living there though some of ther enemies were the Absaroke, Flatheads, Assiniboine, Omaha, Chippewa, and Pawnee tribes. In 1831 a child was born and named "Jumping Badger", which later on the world would know him as "Sitting Bull". He changed his name because he wanted a name with a definition he could live up to. "Sitting Bull" means "a buffalo bull sitting intractably on its haunches". In 1847, at the age of fifteen, he received his first battle wound in a single combat with a Crow(a Sioux tribe member) during a horse-stealing raid. In the 1850s the white men were expanding so the meeting between the whites and the Natives usually resulted in violence.In the 1860s "Sitting Bull"was designated as the tribal chief. In Minnesota, 1862, there was a very bloody uprising between the whites and Natives, the whites had greater numbers and overpowered the Natives and drove them west. During the Civil War the US army couln't focus on the Great Plains, so on December 21 1866 the Lakota tribe won a battle against the whites, which the whites call "Fettermen Massacre" and the Lakota call"Hundred Soldier Killed Fight". In 1867 Sitting Bull was named chief of the entire Sioux tribe for his bravory and greatness in battle. http://www.manataka.org/page57.html In the fall of 1890, Sitting Bull was brought news about the "Ghost Dance" a ceremony the promised to rid the land of white people and restore the Indians' way of life. Authorities were scared Sitting Bull was going to be apart of the ghost dance. The Bureau of Indian Affairs sent Police to arrest Sitting Bull and get him to stop the dance. The Bureau had sent out 43 Lakota police to arrest Sitting Bull. The police broke into his house and pulled Sitting Bull outside and his folowers were there to fight for him so there was a major gun fight and in the end Sitting Bull was Shot in the back of the skull. [|http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3771.html]

Sitting Bull was bron in the winter of 1831. his father named him Slow beacuse he did everything slowly, at first the tribe people thought he was slow in the head, but he later proed this wrong. Sitting Bull lived in the harsh Sioux country. Winter brought firce cold and blizzards and the summer brought droughts. To survive the Sioux had to be strong. Asa child Sitting Bull never actaully saw a white man. there were wagon trains moving west at the time but all of them wre too far south of the Souix country. No white setterler had yet even been through the Souix lands. When he was only 10 Sitting Bull killed his first buffalo. at 14 he fought his first battle and managed to touch an enemy warrior witha special stick and lived to tell about it. Still as a youth he led an elite group of fighters called the Strong Hearts into battle against the Crows, another tribe in the Souix country. In the 1860;s Sitting Bull became the CHeif of the Hunkpapa Sioux, he was only 29 years old. By then however, white setters were everywhere in the Sioux territory. In 1866 the army built a fort in the middle of Sioux lands. Sitting Bull attacked the Fort and almost every other white settlement and many other tribes joined him. They roamed hundreds of miles killing soliders and settlers inside the Soiux country. The US government after 2 years of this offered a treaty to Sitting Bull that stated the Tribes could keep most, but not all, of their territory as a reservatoin, and no white settlers would be allowed in the Sioux land. many cheifs agred but Sitting Bull did not. In the end it didnt matter anyway Beacause the government broke the terms of the treaty almost as soon as it had been signed. Thousands of settlers poured into the land after gold was iscovered in the Black Hills. the government attepted to purchase the Black HIlls but no Sioux cheif was willing to sell the sacred land. The tribes were furious with the way they and their land was being treated. The US governtment ordered all natives to move south ot a reservation, all of the Sioux tribes ignored the order. Instead the Chiefs called a council of war and by june 1876 15000 natives had gathered and were ready to fight the army. after the battle of Little Big Horn the Sioux began to lose slomst every single battle. The army chased Sitting Bull into Canada and many of the tribes surrendered. Finally, in 1881, Sitting Bull came down from Canada after 4 yeasrs of exile and surrendered. Sitting Bull was very famous when he reurned, however, and was known as the Slayer of Custer. Buffalo Bill Cody convinced him to join his Wild West show and Sitting Bull toured the country with Buffalo Bill. Sitting Bull was killed ni 1890 by his own people.

Sitting Bull's First Grave Site before he was moved to South Dakota.http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-nativeamerican/SittingBullOldGrave.jpg