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1841 Sitting Bull's first   buffalo hunt

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1841 Sitting Bull's first   buffalo hunt

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One of Hunkesni's early milestones was his first buffalo hunt at the age of 10. Hunkesni and his tribe would stand in a V formation and call a herd of buffaloes off the cliff for food.

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1884 Sitting Bull moves into his final home

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1884 Sitting Bull moves into his final home

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Sitting Bull works with Agent Major James McLaughlin to settle him into a new place to live. Sitting Bull ended up at a reservation called Standing Rock Reservation.
"When Sitting Bull arrived at Standing Rock Reservation, McLaughlin was 41 years old..." (Rielly 114)

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1876 Sitting Bull goes through a Sun Dance ritual as favor

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1876 Sitting Bull goes through a Sun Dance ritual as favor

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Between May 21 and 24, Sitting Bull asked for Wakantanka to help provide food for his tribe. One of the offers Wakantanka asked in return was for Sitting Bull to a Sun Dance ritual. The ritual then happened on June 4. In the ritual, his brother Jumping Bull cut small pieces of flesh off of Sitting Bull's arm 50 times on both arms.

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1876 Sitting Bull refused to go to the Indian reservations

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1876 Sitting Bull refused to go to the Indian reservations

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President Grant made reservations for
Indians and set a deadline for all of them to go to government agencies to be placed into a new home. However, Sitting Bull did not take this seriously and didn't go to any government agency since he still wanted his freedom.
"January 31, 1876, the deadline for hostile Indian bands to report to government agencies, passed with Sitting Bull still cherishing his freedom." (Rielly 76)

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Link about his burial with a picture of his grave

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Link about his burial with a picture of his grave

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sitting-Bull

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Sitting Bull was wrapped in a blanket and placed in a coffin and taken to the dead house (what passed for a morgue). On December 17, he was buried in the corner of Fort Yates military cemetery.
"The lid was set loosely on the coffin, and Sitting Bull was transported to a corner of the Fort Yates military cemetery for burial." (Rielly 139)

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Link about another version on how Sitting Bull dies

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Link about another version on how Sitting Bull dies

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https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sittingbull.htm

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While policemen were trying to arrest Sitting Bull, one of them picked up a neck yoke and kept hitting Sitting Bull in the face with it. Sitting Bull died before another policeman could stop the other.
"...but whose brother, Strong Arm, was among the dead policemen, picked up a neck yoke and smashed it against Sitting Bull's face." (Rielly 137)

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Link a little about his encounters with the US under War Leader

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Link a little about his encounters with the US under War Leader

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https://www.ducksters.com/history/native_americans/sitting_bull.php

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Sitting Bull wanted to further bind his tribe and allies. For his attire in the Great Sun Dance, he wore a breechcloth, moccasins, and a war bonnet. He also painted his body in yellow clay, his face with black stripes, wrists and ankles with black bands, chest with a black disk and a black crescent on his right shoulder. The Sun dance was a bunch of people gathered around the Sun Dance pole, while Sitting Bull lit up two pipes and held them toward the pole.

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1874 Sitting Bull makes peace with the Hohes

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1874 Sitting Bull makes peace with the Hohes

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After a Hohe was married into Sitting Bull's family, he decides to make peace with them. So when White Dog, a Hohe chief, came to see Sitting Bull, the two leaders smoked and made a friendship pact that would last until 1879.
"The two leaders smoked together and exchanged presents, agreeing to a friendship pact that would last until 1879."(Rielly 69)

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Sitting Bull was going toward a Flathead in an attack on a Flathead camp. While going toward him, the Flathead took out his rifle and shot Sitting Bull in his left forearm. In another version, it is a bow and arrow.
"Sitting Bull rode toward one of the Flatheads, who aimed his rifle and shot, wounding him in the left forearm." (Rielly 56)

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Biography. 27 Apr. 2017, www.biography.com/political-figure/sitting-bull. Accessed 17 Jan. 2020.

Britannica. www.britannica.com/biography/Sitting-Bull. Accessed 19 Jan. 2020.

Ducksters. www.ducksters.com/history/native_americans/sitting_bull.php. Accessed 19 Jan. 2020.

History. 9 Nov. 2009, www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/sitting-bull. Accessed 17 Jan. 2020.

PBS. 2001, www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sittingbull.htm. Accessed 19 Jan. 2020.

Rielly, Edward J. Sitting Bull a Biography. Greenwood Biographies, 2007.

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Link about his first war party (coup) under "Who was Sitting Bull"

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Link about his first war party (coup) under "Who was Sitting Bull"

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https://www.biography.com/political-figure/sitting-bull

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Link about where he was born under "Sitting Bull's Early Life"

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Link about where he was born under "Sitting Bull's Early Life"

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https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/sitting-bull

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1869 Sitting Bull becomes the supreme leader

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1869 Sitting Bull becomes the supreme leader

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The exact date of when Sitting Bull was appointed as supreme leader is uncertain. But it most likely happened after the Fort Laramie conference in Montana.The inauguration took place in a lodge made from many tipis and was open on one side.

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1868 Sitting Bull refuses to sign a treaty

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1868 Sitting Bull refuses to sign a treaty

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The Fort Laramie Treaty tried to give Sitting Bull a couple options in their favor. However, Sitting Bull refuses all the options and decided to not sign a treaty. As a result of this, in a later assault, 100 of Sitting Bull's warriors, with tons of women and children as well, died.

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Although the American Civil War was over,the north and south gave no respite for the Indians.This escalates Sitting Bull's tribe and the US's current problems.
"The American Civil War ended in 1865, but the cessation of the war between the North and South promised no respite foe the Indians of the Plains."(Rielly 45)

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On September 2, Sitting Bull was struggling with an enemy. The enemy was a soldier that was mounted on a horse. While Sitting Bull was trying to throw the soldier to the ground, the soldier took his pistol and shot Sitting Bull in the left hip.

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On July 28, Sitting Bull got into another battle with US troops at Killdeer Mountain. This was his first major battle with the US and lost 100 people while the US lost 2.
"This was Sitting Bull's first major battle with a large government force and despite the defeat, he was not ready to give up."(Rielly 38)

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After encounters with the army, the Lakota Hunkpapas and Blackfeet signaled the beginning of a warfare between Sitting Bull's Hunkpapas and the US military.

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Jumping Bull, Sitting Bull's father, dies in a one-on-one battle with a Crow. There are two versions of the story. One states that Jumping Bull got stabbed while trying to take out his knife. He was unable to since his sheath was lower on his back. Another version states that Jumping Bull got shot in the shoulder, rendering him unable to grab his knife.
"He then withdrew the knife and plunged it downward into Jumping Bull's head, breaking the knife off in his skull." (Rielly 23)

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Sitting Bull saves and adopts a young boy as his brother. In the same year, the Midnight Strong Heart Society appointed him as war chief. This was an honor to him, as this position was even higher than war chief pf his tribe.

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Hunkesni, now known as Sitting Bull, was in a fight with 3 Crows. While attempting to block the first bullet, Sitting Bull's shield slightly reflected the bullet. Instead if it being out of harm's way, the bullet hit Sitting Bull's left foot, giving him a permanent limp.

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Hunkesni joins his first coup at 14. This was a major achievement of his childhood and it started his way into the warrior way of life. Hunkesni brought only the coup stick into the attack on the Crows. He struck a Crow while his horse knocks the man to the ground while another Hunkpapa finished the Crow.

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The approximate time a boy named Jumping Badger was born, son of Jumping Bull and Her Holy Door, in present day South Dakota. He also got a nickname of Hunkesni later in life for his slow actions.
"Before long, Jumping Badger inherited a nickname, Hunkesni, which means slow---not slow intellectually, but deliberate in his actions..." (Rielly 2)