Chief Sitting Bull Research Paper

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Chief Sitting Bull was the Chief of the Sioux Indian tribe. He was born in the river valley. River Valley is now known as South Dakota. When he was young he was associated with the little wars between different tribes such as, the Crow and Assiniboine tribes. Before he became chief, in his earlier years he had many nicknames such as Jumping Badger.
He was also very first Chief to become chief of the whole Lakota Sioux nation. When he raided other villages, he didn’t really focus on killing people because he mainly just stole livestock and crops on military outposts. He had many raids on Fort Buford in North Dakota. His Uncle Four Horn spread a movement uniting the arming of natives to stand up to the military forces of the American. This

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