The life of Sitting Bull was extraordinary; he was a warrior and a great chief of the Sioux people (SV; SV). Sitting Bull was born in March 1831 and lived his whole life in Grand River, South Dakota. He was also the son of an esteemed warrior named Returns-Again. When he was at the age of ten; that is when he killed his first buffalo and then four years later he fought with courage in his first battle (Sitting Bull 1). As he was a little child, him, his dad, his two uncles were icons in their people’s eyes (A, B, C). During his child-hood, his name was Tatakana iyotanka. Later he started to call himself Tatakana yotanka or Jumping Bull (West 30).
When he was a small child, and starting to grow up he was a great person. His mom’s name was Mixed Day or commonly known as Her-Holy-Door. When he was 14, his dad gave him a Coupstick, which is a long wand used for striking at the enemy (Bernotas 20-21). In 1850, Sitting Bull achieves the rank of warrior/hunter in his tribe. Seven years later, he adopts a Assiniboine names Stay-Back as his brother. In 1863, he joins the fight with Dakota Sioux to fight off Henry H. Sibley. Then one year later joins to fight at Killdeer Mountain in South Dakota. During the Sun Dance in the late 1860s, Sitting Bull was ranked to a chief (Schleichert 104).
At one time in history he said, “This earth the Creature I am, Ye Tribes, you may live. This earth the Creator I am, Ye Tribes, may you behold it (West 32). As Sitting Bull’s significance was at the Little Bighorn Bay was a significance of wisdom and leadership, which drew people together and hold on to it says Robert M. Utley. In the late year of 1876, Sitting Bull and his tribe was harried, or being rushed, overworked, or harassed, into Canada.
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On June 25, 1876, The Battle of Little Bighorn took place near the Black Hills in Montana. This was one of the most controversial battles of the 20th century and the line between good guys and bad guys was grey at best. Gen. George Armstrong Custer (reduced to LTC after the civil war) had 366 men of the 7thU.S. Cavalry under his command that day. Sitting Bull (A Medicine Man) led 2000 braves of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes (Klos, 2013). At the conclusion of the battle, the stories of the Indians savagery were used to demonize their culture and there were no survivors from the 7thcavalry to tell what really happened.
In the introduction, Hämäläinen introduces how Plains Indians horse culture is so often romanticized in the image of the “mounted warrior,” and how this romanticized image is frequently juxtaposed with the hardships of disease, death, and destruction brought on by the Europeans. It is also mentioned that many historians depict Plains Indians equestrianism as a typical success story, usually because such a depiction is an appealing story to use in textbooks. However, Plains Indians equestrianism is far from a basic story of success. Plains equestrianism was a double-edged sword: it both helped tribes complete their quotidian tasks more efficiently, but also gave rise to social issues, weakened the customary political system, created problems between other tribes, and was detrimental to the environment.
Utley used many different sources for to defend his ideas including Walter S. Campbell Collection at the University of Oklahoma Library in Norman. The book starts off allowing the reader to understand who Sitting Bull truly is. It is not fully known what year Sitting Bull was born, but he was born with a different name than Sitting Bull. When Sitting Bull was first born his name was “Jumping Badger” (5). The importance of the relationships between the different tribes is a major theme throughout the book. Under the name the Sioux, which the US has put many different tribes into, there are many that have rivals and alliances. The tribes that included under the name Sioux are: Lakota/Teton, Oglala, San Ar, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet, Two Kettles, Plant Beside the Stream, Yakton/Tanktonai, West Dakotas, and Santee/East Dakotas.
L. Frank Baum is known as an astonishing writer. Who hasn't seen or read Wizard of Oz? To this day it is a house hold movie. It's interesting that he is little known for his views of Native Americans.
4.)"Rodeo Facts: The Case Against Rodeos." Winning the Case Against Cruelty. Animal Legal Defense Fund, 1979. Web. 14 Apr. 2014. .
The Battle of Little Bighorn is one of the most, maybe even the most, controversial battle in American history. General George Armstrong Custer led his 210 troops into battle and never came out. Miscalculations, blunders, and personal glory led Custer not only to his death, but also being the most talked about soldier in this battle. But all the blame doesn’t just go on Custer’s shoulders; it also goes on Captain Frederick Benteen and Major Marcus Reno, who both fought in the battle. Both the Captain and the Major both made serious mistakes during the fight, most notable Major Marcus Reno being flat out drunk during the course of the battle. All of these factors have led The Battle of Little Bighorn to being the worst lost to any Plains Indian group in American history.
Krakauer, Jon. "Chapter 18/The Stampede Trail." Into the Wild. New York: Anchor, 1997. 195. Print.
In 1890, Amos Bad Heart Bull enlisted in the U.S. Army as an Indian scout and learned to speak English. He served at Fort Robinson with his uncle Grant Short Bull. During this time, he purchased a ledger book from a clothing dealer in nearby Crawford, Nebraska. He used its papers for drawing a series of pictures. In the process, he adapted traditional Native American pictography techniques to the new European medium of paper.
Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, New York, Bantam Press,1970
First, Little Black Bull became Bear’s Brother. His mother told him he must choose his own name when he was ready. He chose the name Bear’s Brother. “...‘I shall call myself Bear’s Brother. That is a good name.’” (22). He found inspiration for his name when he became friends with a she-bear. Later, he would become friends with her baby cub. The symbol of a bear plays a very important role in his identity and past.
In an attempt to understand whether or not Plenty Coups's hope was justified, philosopher Jonathan Lear brilliantly juxtaposes the great Crow chief's response to the collapse of civilization with the starkly contrasting response of the legendary Sioux chief Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull's understanding of courage was rooted firmly in traditional Sioux values and ideals which he took upon himself to embody, and therefore judged Plenty Coups's leadership and radical hope to be foolish and cowardly. Frederick E. Hoxie writes, "Sitting Bull insisted that authentic tribal leaders would never cooperate with the American government. To do so would be to surrender one's personal authority and sacrifice one's followers to the whims of petty officials"
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Running Bull exhibits a metallic headband and facial war paint with a black hand print surrounded by orange paint. The black represents speed and power and the orange represents his intelligence and
The Bullfighting that we find in chapter XV of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is indicative of Hemingway's thematic concerns and artistic performance, as they hold a much deeper meaning to the story than simply being the action scenes. Through close readings, we can actually see that they are representative of Jake's group dynamic's as a whole; particularly Jake's and Cohn's situation within the group. To see this one needs to first look at the releasing of the bulls and the peculiarity of Jake's watching from the balcony, next one will look at the first bull fight and the use of the horse, as it is representative of Cohn and what the group does to him, and finally we will explore the narration of the second day's bull-fighting and