SITTING BULL IN MEMORY by Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner Mrs. Fanny Kelly was taken captive in July 1864 by a war party of Hunkpapa Sioux in Wyoming. During most of the five months she was held prisoner, Mrs. Kelly stayed in the lodgings of Sitting Bull, the famous leader as a guest, of his family, and I was treated as a guest, she wrote. He was uniformly gentle, and kind to his wife and children ...
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Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Sioux (1831-1890) Sitting Bull, Lakota Medicine Man and Chief was considered the last Sioux to surrender to the U.S. Government. In the early 1850s, the Lakota (Sioux) had begun to feel the pressure of the white expansion into the Western United States. Sitting Bull did not participate in the resistance until 1863 when the settlers threatened the Hunkpapa hunting grounds.
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Tell me when this page is updated TATANKA YOTANKA (Photo courtesy of JDK Chipps)) In 1831, life on the Great Plains was good for the Lakota. The land provided everything. There were bison which provided meat to eat, skins for shelter and clothing, and bones for utensils. Even the sinew served the buffalo hunter as bow strings. There were respected enemies against whom to prove one's valor: ...
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A Newspaper Account of the Death of Sitting Bull December 15, 1890 The text below is excerpted from Looking Back at Wounded Knee 1890 by Prof. Robert Venables, Cornell University. Published in Northeast Indian Quarterly Spring 1990. It reads: The following quotes were printed in The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, a weekly newspaper published in Aberdeen, South Dakota. The first was published ...
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