The Four Cardinal Virtues of the Lakota
What were “the four cardinal virtues of the Lakota” that Sitting Bull embodied? Why do you think that one fellow tribesman remarked that there “was something in Sitting Bull that everyone liked”? Describe how this great Sioux leader also represented the “three distinct personalities” that the Lakota valued.
The “the four cardinal virtues of the Lakota” that Sitting Bull possessed was bravery, fortitude, generosity, and wisdom. These four virtues are characteristics that most leaders we see today have and past leaders held. Tatankalyotanka or Sitting Bull demonstrated these virtues at a very young age and they were precursors to becoming the chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux tribe. At the age of fourteen, Sitting Bull had not proven his courage but he was known as Slow for his deliberate and willful ways. But after a war party to find horses and scalps of the enemy tribe, the Crow tribe, Slow became a village hero by striking a fleeing Crow member with a tomahawk and showing his bravery at such a young age. “Slow, mounted on a sturdy gray horse his father had given him, his naked body painted yellow from head to foot and hung with colorful strands of beads, shrieked a war cry and galloped in pursuit. The powerful gray swiftly overtook the quarry. Pulling abreast, Slow smashed his adversary with a tomahawk and knocked him from his mount.” (Page: 5) At the age of fourteen now, teenager’s biggest challenge is just starting high school while Sitting Bull started his list of many military victory. Slow then became Sitting Bull and received his feathered lanced from his mother and a shield with the symbol that he saw in a dream from his father. The name Sitting Bull was not only a name passed down from his father but also was a name that would still live to this day because of Sitting Bull’s leadership and resistance to the whites. As Sitting Bull grew older, he showed the four cardinal virtues of bravery, fortitude, generosity, and wisdom countless times.
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The “the four cardinal virtues of the Lakota” that Sitting Bull possessed was bravery, fortitude, generosity, and wisdom. These four virtues are characteristics that most leaders we see today have and past leaders held. Tatankalyotanka or Sitting Bull demonstrated these virtues at a very young age and they were precursors to becoming the chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux tribe. At the age of fourteen, Sitting Bull had not proven his courage but he was known as Slow for his deliberate and willful ways. But after a war party to find horses and scalps of the enemy tribe, the Crow tribe, Slow became a village hero by striking a fleeing Crow member with a tomahawk and showing his bravery at such a young age. “Slow, mounted on a sturdy gray horse his father had given him, his naked body painted yellow from head to foot and hung with colorful strands of beads, shrieked a war cry and galloped in pursuit. The powerful gray swiftly overtook the quarry. Pulling abreast, Slow smashed his adversary with a tomahawk and knocked him from his mount.” (Page: 5) At the age of fourteen now, teenager’s biggest challenge is just starting high school while Sitting Bull started his list of many military victory. Slow then became Sitting Bull and received his feathered lanced from his mother and a shield with the symbol that he saw in a dream from his father. The name Sitting Bull was not only a name passed down from his father but also was a name that would still live to this day because of Sitting Bull’s leadership and resistance to the whites. As Sitting Bull grew older, he showed the four cardinal virtues of bravery, fortitude, generosity, and wisdom countless times.
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