Sitting Bull
In 1831 an indian child was born, of the Sioux Nation and the Hunkpapa Tribe. His father, Sitting Bull, and mother, Her-holy-door, did not name him Sitting Bull, he was named Jumping Badger. He was never called Jumping Badger, he was called Slow because of his willful and deliberate ways.
When Slow was fourteen he insisted on going along with the adult warriors into battle. Usually the untrained youths were errand boys while learning about battle conditions. Slow, screaming a war cry, jumped into the battle when he saw a Crow splitting away from the main battle and knocked him from his horse, earning his first coup. Another warrior swarmed in for the kill and counted the second coup. This coup elevated Slow to the status of Warrior. His father performed the necessary rituals and renamed him Sitting Bull, taking the name Jumping Bull for himself..
When Slow was freed from the cradle board he was instructed in the warrior ways by his father and uncle, Four Horns. They spent hours each day sharpening his riding and shooting skills. Success in the two basic roles - war and hunting - depended on the ability to maneuver a speeding pony in tight circumstances and the swiftness and accuracy of launching arrows from a bow. Slow was reared to excel in both. By his tenth year, Slow had absorbed the traditions and customs of war and the hunt, but like the other kids he played the games they loved because they were fun and because they taught them how to win, which was important for a warrior. Slow was taught from earliest childhood about the four top indian qualities: bravery, fortitude, generosity, and wisdom. Bravery came first, and war honor were carefully judged. The warrior who most fearlessly risked his life earned the admiration of all the people and received the most cherished honors. First coup (striking an ene!
my with a coup stick) showed more daring than slaying. A warrior who had counted first coup, (or second or third) bragged about it. They had to have it witnessed, and was given an eagle feather to wear in his hair as a badge of honor. The best warriors only wore one or two feathers on a daily basis and wore their full bonnets (some warriors had bonnets with feathers clear down to their heels) for formal ceremonies.
Sitting Bull and Light Hair, his first wife, had one son who died at the age of four. He then adopted his s...
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...25th. The attack failed miserably, Custer failed to follow his own highly respected scouts report. Custer was told of many more indians than he could handle. The battle lasted three days. Sitting Bull in a vision at Medicine Rock on June 14th saw thi!
s victory for his people. Sitting Bull had offered a hundred pieces of skin, cut from his arms, as a sacrifice to the Great Spirit during their big Sun Dance so his people would live right before his vision.
The summation of Sitting Bulls' importance in the Battle of Little Bighorn as written by Robert M. Utley tells us of the respect Sitting Bull commanded from all. "Sitting Bull's significance at the Little Bighorn lay not in flaunting bravery, or directing the movements of warriors, or even inspiring them to fight. It lay rather in a leadership so wise and powerful that it drew together and held together a muscular coalition of tribes, one so infused with his defiant cast of mind that it could rout Three Stars (General Cook) and annihilate Long Hair (General Custer). Never had the Sioux and Cheyennes triumphed so spectacularly, and never would they again. For that, more than any other chief, they could thank Sitting Bull."
Army in 1874, when General George A Custer said that gold had been discovered in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory. This was a sacred area to many tribes and had always been off-limits to white settlement since the signing of the Fort Laramie Treaty. The government tried to purchase this land, but failed, so the Fort Laramie Treaty was set aside and ordered that all Lakota were to leave their land by January 31, 1867. Sitting Bull refused to leave so he and his tribe stood their ground. They later realized that there were more army men than Lakota, so they joined forces with other
General Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks. In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them. The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes.
There are many factors that did affect the outcome of this battle. George Custer could be to blame for such a tragedy. He did make the critical decisions that brought his soldiers down. Custer’s personal ambition got the best of him. Windolph explains, “Custer was partially disgraced because General Terry had superseded him in command of the expedition” (Windolph 174). He felt that he should have received control over the entire expedition. Custer made no secret of his intention to cut loose from Terry. General Terry, General Gibbon, and General Custer were all to meet on June 26, at the Rosebud, and plan their attack. But as soon as Custer struck the trail of the Indians he followed it till he came upon the Indian village on June 25. He disobeyed Terry’s orders.
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).
The only battle remembered in the Indian Wars was the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Custer’s brilliant last stand. Custer made the biggest mistake of his life, and that is what propelled him to fame. The U.S. Army performed better without him. There were other battles besides that one.
Sitting Bull realized they could not defeat the army alone, and they must stand with other tribes. On June 17, they forced a retreat of U.S. troops at the Battle of the Rosebud.
In conclusion, loss of someone proves to be unavoidable and sparks pessimistic and aggressive feelings that damage us, leaving us to fend for ourselves as seen in the double deaths of Kamal and his father, and the murder of Hassan. Death is not always peaceful and does not always bring along an optimistic life- changing moral; it can lead to insanity or guilt that we cannot do anything to save them. It is unpredictable, but lies in front of us, and it truly tells us to cherish others, but ourselves as well. We let our own feelings get in the way of practical thinking, but we must learn to adapt and know how precious life is.
...ing to become more of the head chief to bring other tribes into cohorts with the Hunkpapas to survive against the whites. Sitting Bull had become the war chief of the entire Sioux nation. This is another example that Utley uses to show how this one man is a born leader and respected individual in the west.
Battle Analysis of the Battle of Little Bighorn 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 7th U.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).
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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.
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