Teton Indian Chief: Sitting Bull

It was a time when white men wanted to claim everything. They wanted to let Native Americans know they had all the fire power to do as they pleased. Sitting Bull did not agree to this IRA because in his speech he said loved the freedom to go where his people pleased, to hunt wherever, and set up teepees where they chose to set up home base. It was this act that led to Sitting Bull’s important speech. The additional information I knew prior to reading Sitting Bull’s speech is everything I had learned in high school about Native American history.

Show Indians “Buffalo Bill Cody was the perfect carrier of interest in the Indian” (Boehme, 1998:77). Over a thousand Native American performers appeared in Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show, participating in historical event reenactments, horseback riding, and performing ceremonial dances. These performers often participated in reenactments that included attacks on settler 's cabins, stagecoaches, pony–express mail riders, and wagon trains. Among the historical reenactments were the Battle of Little Big Horn and the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Although they had to perform under stereotypical guidelines, the Show at least provided natives an opportunity to continue participating in their own cultural practices, which were deemed illegal on

difference was Sitting Bull thought the best for the people was to fight for the land. More forts were built, Fort Union and Fort Buford went deep into Sioux land near Yellowstone, and Sitting Bull truly hated them, especially Fort Buford. By the end of the civil war people were coming in droves, the government still trying to take the land peaceable, sent in Pierre-Jean-De Smet, who was a Jesuit Priest. While Sitting Bull would not meet with government officials, he did meet with the priest. He did agree to peace, but later in the ceremony he still had the same concerns he had throughout the invasion of the land, as long as the whites left the land and stayed off, he would agree to peace.

Amongst the Great Plains of the United States were four groups of Indian tribes who dominated for years. In the South you had the Comanche Indians, in the central part of the plains you had the Arapaho and Cheyenne, and the tribe who roamed the northern plains were the almighty Sioux Indians. These four tribes roamed the plains and dominated in their sectors of the country. Now even though these tribes did not believe in ‘owning’ land they did believe in dominating the land. The way the tribes saw it then is the same way we see it now as putting a price on air, to them it wasn 't possible.

They celebrated by burning down the abandoned forts along the trail. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were in another war, but red cloud did not join. His tribe did not like his decision and was no longer chief. He spent most of his life at war and was a great

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Knowing that the Indians had surrendered their rights to the settlers, Chivington led his 700 troops to Sand Creek and positioned them around the Indian village. Black Kettle raised both an American and a white flag, representing peace and harmony, over his tepee. Despite this, chivington and his men brutally began to hunt down men, women, and children, unmercifully shooting and murdering them. In the end, 72-163 natives and 24 US soldiers were killed.

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