In early all Indian people were ordered onto reservations, and soldiers were sent after those who refused. One of the soldiers was General Custer, who led his immediate command of men into battle against approximately Sioux, including Sitting Bull, and had his entire command wiped out.
Returning to the United States in , he was held prisoner at the Standing Rock Reservation in the Dakota territory. His duties were limited — Sitting Bull rode in the show's opening procession — and he was well compensated, earning 50 dollars a week plus the money he made from selling autographs. He was treated kindly by Oakley, who said the Sioux warrior "made a great pet of me.
But life on the road was sometimes unpleasant. Crowds hissed, newspapers termed him "as mild mannered a man as ever cut a throat or scalped a helpless woman," and in Pittsburgh the brother of a soldier killed at Little Big Horn attacked him. He was shocked by the poverty, he witnessed in his travels, especially among children. In Wikipedia. Retrieved March 1, from Wikipedia. Lehman, Tim.
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, Philbrick, Nathaniel. New York, Viking, In , Native Americans began to take up the Ghost Dance, a ceremony aimed at ridding the land of white people and restore the Native American way of life. Sitting Bull soon joined it. Fearing the powerful chief's influence on the movement, authorities directed a group of Lakota police officers to arrest Sitting Bull.
On December 15, , they entered his home. After they dragged Sitting Bull out of his cabin, a gunfight followed and the chief was shot in the head and killed. He was laid to rest at Fort Yates in North Dakota. In , his remains were moved to Mobridge, South Dakota, where they remain today. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
Red Cloud was a chief of the Oglala Lakota tribe. He is best known for his success in confrontations with the U. Crazy Horse was an Oglala Sioux Indian chief who fought against being relocated to an Indian reservation. The future chief killed his first buffalo when he was just 10 years old. At 14, he joined a Hunkpapa raiding party and distinguished himself by knocking a Crow warrior from his horse with a tomahawk.
Sitting Bull was renowned for his skill in close quarters fighting and collected several red feathers representing wounds sustained in battle. The most stunning display of his courage came in , when the Sioux clashed with the U. Army during a campaign to block construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. As a symbol of his contempt for the soldiers, the middle-aged chief strolled out into the open and took a seat in front of their lines. Inviting several others to join him, he proceeded to have a long, leisurely smoke from his tobacco pipe, all the while ignoring the hail of bullets whizzing by his head.
Upon finishing his pipe, Siting Bull carefully cleaned it and then walked off, still seemingly oblivious to the gunfire around him. In the s, Sitting Bull emerged as one of the fiercest opponents of white encroachment on Sioux land. His resistance usually took the form of raids on livestock and hit-and-run attacks against military outposts, including several against Fort Buford in North Dakota. Knowing that the Indians required unity to face down the might of the U.
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