Sitting Bull: The Teton Dakota Indian Chief

Tatanka-Iyotanka, better known as Sitting Bull, was born in 1831, in the Grand River located in what’s now South Dakota. He was a Teton Dakota Indian who became chief under whom the Sioux tribes united in their struggle for survival on the North American Great Plains. He was the son of a chief, a man who was a very admirable Sioux warrior in his times by the name of Returns Again. Sitting Bull sought from his father and had the eagerness to follow in his pace. However, he never showed a particular capability towards warfare. As an outcome, he was called “Slow” for his supposed inadequacy skills, while in his early years as a child, he learned to use a small bow to hunt rabbits, birds, and other animals. Therefore, he was growing into a young man and began to feel desire on proving himself to his people, a vision in which he began to display great courage.

In continuation of his early years, however, he was able to kill his first buffalo. Four years later, he fought virtuously in a battle against a rival clan. He was named Tatanka-Iyotanka, a Teton name that describes a buffalo bull lotus on its haunches. Much of Sitting Bull’s life was formed by the hard times against an extended American nation. He was young chosen as a leader for the Strong Heart Society. Then, in June 1863, he took up arms against the United States for the first time. He fought American soldiers again the afterward year at the Battle of Killdeer Mountain. Years passed and back again; he induced an attack on the newly built Fort Rice in what’s now called North Dakota. His skills as a warrior and respect he’d won as a leader of his people led him to eventually become chief of the Lakota nation in 1868.

As a defender of his people Sitting Bull affiliated his fi...

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...s people’s way of life. Suddenly, one day, People with consternation of the almighty chief’s control on the movement, directed a chain of Lakota police officers to arrest Sitting Bull. On December 15, 1890, they entered his home. Then he was hauled out his cabin. A gunfight followed, and the chief was shot in the head and instantly killed. Later, he was settled to rest at Fort Yates in North Dakota. His remains were finally transported to Mobridge, South Dakota, where today they still remain.

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