Sitting Bull I read Sitting Bull: Champion of His People, written by Shannon Garst. Sitting Bull, born in 1831, leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota people, and father of two, Crow Foot, and Many Horses. Was not just a leader to his people, but also a champion. When he was younger he was fearless of anyone and anything that he came along. He lead the Lakota people to a rebellion against the United States government's rules and regulations. One day while minding his own business the “Indian Agency Police” came along and whilst trying to arrest him, he had been killed. “My son, if you live, you will never be a man in this world, because you can never have a pony or a gun.” (Sitting Bull, Pg. 152) His culture is a lot different than ours in several
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From when he was even a younger kid he was harassed by the Americans. He was kinda like a flipped over turtle on its back and can't roll over because of all the Americans trying to stop his rebellion. His rebellion lead to many wars and fights and he won most of them. Wars were kinda normal in his period of time because of all the land fights. So yes his culture just wanted to be friends and ours didn’t. “Sitting Bull you have always been against the white men.” (Miles, Sitting Bull’s tribe mate, Pg. 139) During holidays our families meet and either give presents to one another, or celebrate the holiday. Their culture mostly dances around a fire, and says chants that came from ancient people. It kinda frees’ their souls from anything that goes on in this world. All the wars that go on are hard but when they celebrate different things they act like nothing is going on at the moment and that’s magnificent. They’re a very interesting tribe because they instead like us when hearing something funny or exciting saying “yay,” these people say “Hoa.” This is so interesting because even tho they live in the same country as us their language is so much more different than ours. Language is very important because we can’t communicate unless we know what others are saying. This was probably some of the reasoning of most of the wars were different culture
From when he was even a younger kid he was harassed by the Americans. He was kinda like a flipped over turtle on its back and can't roll over because of all the Americans trying to stop his rebellion. His rebellion lead to many wars and fights and he won most of them. Wars were kinda normal in his period of time because of all the land fights. So yes his culture just wanted to be friends and ours didn’t. “Sitting Bull you have always been against the white men.” (Miles, Sitting Bull’s tribe mate, Pg. 139) During holidays our families meet and either give presents to one another, or celebrate the holiday. Their culture mostly dances around a fire, and says chants that came from ancient people. It kinda frees’ their souls from anything that goes on in this world. All the wars that go on are hard but when they celebrate different things they act like nothing is going on at the moment and that’s magnificent. They’re a very interesting tribe because they instead like us when hearing something funny or exciting saying “yay,” these people say “Hoa.” This is so interesting because even tho they live in the same country as us their language is so much more different than ours. Language is very important because we can’t communicate unless we know what others are saying. This was probably some of the reasoning of most of the wars were different culture