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The Battle of the Little Bighorn which was fought on June 25, 1876

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It was in a camp near Little Bighorn River that Sitting Bull and a Wichasa Wakan took part in the Sun Dance ceremony where he danced for 36 hours straight( 1 1/2 days) making 50 sacrificial cuts on each arm before falling into a trance. When Wichasa Waka awoke  he had a sight and it was about U.S. soldiers falling like grasshoppers from the sky and deciphered  that the U.S. Army will soon be defeated .June 25, 1876 600 men under General Gorge Custer a West Point graduate entered the valley Sitting Bull made sure that all women of his tribe were protected and safe meanwhile Crazy Horse leaded 3,000 Native Americans to victory of the Battle of LittleBighorn overpowering General Gorge Custer's army of 300 and all 300 were killed . He was defeated, and this was soon to be known as Custer's Last Stand.

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Sitting Bull and The Fort Laramie Treaty

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Sitting Bull and The Fort Laramie Treaty

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In 1868, Red Cloud or Mahpiua Luta this was 1868-1909, The chief of Oglala Teton Dakota Sioux. He signed the Fort Laramie Treaty and 24 other treaties, also representatives of the U.S. government such as General William Tecumseh Sherman.The Fort Laramie Treaty created the Great Sioux Reservation and earmarked added land to the Sioux in areas in North Dakota Wyoming and Nebraska. Sitting bull and his anti-treaty stance won over many people and he got many followers. Later around 1869 Sitting Bull was made the supreme leader of the Lakota Sioux Sitting Bull the first person to hold such a title. Soon of the Members of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes joined Sitting Bull. In 1874 Gold was found in the Black Hills an area sacred to the Sioux and in the boundaries of the Great Sioux Reservation. The whites seeking their fortunes and rushed to claim The Sioux land as their own. The U.S. Army broke the Fort Laramie Treaty, and ordered that any Sioux who dared resist move to the redrawn reservation lines by January 31, 1876, or be considered an enemy of the United States. Sitting Bull was expected to tall his entire village to travel 240 miles in bitter cold. Sitting Bull refused to back down. He formed a power that had the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Sioux and faced off against General George Crook on June 17, 1876. The force won the Battle of the Rosebud and from there the troops went to the valley of Bighorn River.

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Sitting Bull Died at Standing Rock Where he was shot by Indian Police Officers.

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Sitting Bull has fought the U.S. army many times and the first on was in June 1863 when the U.S. came for the Santee Sioux.

One year later was The Battle of Killdeer(The Battle of Tahkahokuty Mountain) where the troops were under control of  General Alfred Sully he surrounded a Indian trading town

Sitting Bull killed his first Buffalo when he was 10 years old then when he was 14 he did a raid with his father and uncle on a Crow camp. Soon after that Sitting Bull had the choose it he were to be called Tatanka Yotanka, or Sitting Bull and he chose Sitting Bull for bravery.

Soon after being named Sitting Bull he joined the  Strong Heart warrior society and the Silent Eaters these group ensure welfare to the Sioux tribe.

Sitting Bull led the expansion of the Sioux hunting ground and going further into westward territories that was perviously lived by  Assiniboine, Crow and Shoshone, among others.

Sitting Bull did many wars and protected his lands with his life.

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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
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