Sitting Bull by Yolanda Le https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6 By Edward J. Rielly en-us 2019-11-12 19:38:44 UTC 2025-12-23 09:47:15 UTC hello@padlet.com 1831 Sitting Bull was born leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171179 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)]]> 2019-12-31 19:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171179 1846 Sitting Bull's early childhood leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171213 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.]]> 2019-12-31 19:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171213 1856 Sitting Bull's major injury leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171242 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.]]> 2019-12-31 19:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171242 1857 New brother and achievement leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171256 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.]]> 2019-12-31 19:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171256 1859 Sitting Bull's father's death leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171276 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)]]> 2019-12-31 19:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171276 1863 Beginning of warfare leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171327 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.]]> 2019-12-31 19:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/427171327 1864 Major battle with US government leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/428142059 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)]]> 2020-01-06 20:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/428142059 1864 Sitting Bull is wounded again leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/428142122 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.]]> 2020-01-06 20:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/428142122 1865 Civil War ended leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/428142380 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)]]> 2020-01-06 20:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/428142380 1868 Sitting Bull refuses to sign a treaty leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/428142552 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.]]> 2020-01-06 20:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/428142552 1869 Sitting Bull becomes the supreme leader leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/428142657 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.]]> 2020-01-06 20:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/428142657 Link about where he was born under "Sitting Bull's Early Life" leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433037066 https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/sitting-bull]]> 2020-01-17 17:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433037066 Link about his first war party (coup) under "Who was Sitting Bull" leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433038068 https://www.biography.com/political-figure/sitting-bull]]> 2020-01-17 17:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433038068 Works cited leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433045192 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.
]]> 2020-01-17 17:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433045192 1870 Sitting Bull faces another injury leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433455809 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)]]> 2020-01-19 21:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433455809 1874 Sitting Bull makes peace with the Hohes leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433457230 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)]]> 2020-01-19 21:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433457230 1875 The Great Sun Dance leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433458041 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.]]> 2020-01-19 21:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433458041 Link a little about his encounters with the US under War Leader leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433459782 https://www.ducksters.com/history/native_americans/sitting_bull.php]]> 2020-01-19 22:01:35 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433459782 1890 Sitting Bull dies leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433460392 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)]]> 2020-01-19 22:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433460392 Link about another version on how Sitting Bull dies leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433461311 https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sittingbull.htm]]> 2020-01-19 22:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433461311 1890 Sitting Bull's burial leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433498622 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)]]> 2020-01-20 02:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433498622 Link about his burial with a picture of his grave leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433500803 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sitting-Bull]]> 2020-01-20 02:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433500803 1876 Sitting Bull refused to go to the Indian reservations leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433514768 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)]]> 2020-01-20 04:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433514768 1876 Sitting Bull goes through a Sun Dance ritual as favor leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433517373 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.]]> 2020-01-20 04:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433517373 1884 Sitting Bull moves into his final home leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433520197 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)]]> 2020-01-20 04:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433520197 1841 Sitting Bull's first buffalo hunt leyol000 https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433521957 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.]]> 2020-01-20 04:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/leyol000/d4c54fftovi6/wish/433521957