Sitting Bull Thesis

Sitting Bull was born at an estimated around 1831, he died on December 15th 1890. Sitting Bull was born in Grand Rider, South Dakota and died in the same place. His occupation was a warrior and military leader. His mother’s name was Her-Holy-Door, his father’s was Jumping Bull. At birth Sitting Bull was originally names Jumping Badger. As a young teen he conferred the name Sitting Bull after he killed his first buffalo at the age of 10. At age 14 he joined Lakota warriors as a part of a raiding party on an enemy camp. During the raid he displayed great valor despite his young age, and a ceremony was held after the successful raid to make his passage into a man as a Lakota warrior. As a young man Sitting Bull was chosen as a leader of the Strong Heart Society of warriors, later
The knowledge that the government lacked to know was that the Bighorn Valley was the local gathering place for Indian tribe meetings and camped at Little Bighorn were seven to ten thousand Indians, mostly comprising of Sioux and Cheyennes. Sitting Bull and his allies among them. Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer’s army was defeated and Custer dies. After the Little Bighorn victory, Sitting Bull and a number of his followers fled to Canada to escape the government’s orders to surrender. Nearing starvation and exhaustion, Sitting Bull’s band was finally forced to retreat back to the United States and give themselves up July 19th, 1881. From 1885 to 1886, Sitting Bull traveled with William Cody’s West Show and than spent his remaining years on the Standing Rock Reservation, South Dakota. December 15, 1890, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) ordered Sitting Bull’s arrest for his alleged involvement in the Ghost Dance religion, which BIA thought to be an uprising. Confrontation with the U.S. troops occurred, leaving several hundred people dead of gunshot wounds, including Sitting