Sitting Bull Thesis

Sitting Bull (Tatanka Yotanka) was born in the grand river valley. when he was younger,he joined the normal tribe raids for horses against the Sioux's normal enemies such as the crow and Assinoboin. his first war was with the crow when he was 14. he soon gained a reputation for bravery in battle. much of his life was based on the struggles against america expanding its nation. in 1865 sitting bull led an attack on fort rice (modern day north Dakota). his skills and the respect he'd gained made him become chief of the Latoka nation in 1868. a little bit before the 1870's gold was discovered in the black hills, which was a sacred area to the native Americans. the Americans made this area their land which began to cause conflict. (we're in the …show more content…
Sitting bull was one of these native Americans. hew was praised for his by both his people and the generations that came after him.. there was a spiritual ceremony, a sun dance ceremony, in which sitting bull did many impressive things such as dancing for 36 hours in a row, slashing his arms as a sign of sacrifice.and depriving himself from drinking water. After all this, he told his people that he had a vision of the Americans being defeated. only a few days later was it when Sitting bull led a victorious battle against the american forces. this was the battle of the rose bud. a week later there was another battle which was against general George Armstrong Custer. this was the battle at little bighorn. there, he led thousands of native american warriors, wiping out Custer and his 200-plus men. the US government was embarrassed by this loss and they tried their best to gain land from the native Americans. to get away from this, sitting bull brought him and his tribe to canada for 4 years. in 1881 sitting bull returned to the Dakota area. he was held prisoner until 1883. in 1885, after meeting Annie Oakley, he joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West