Sitting Bull

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It was 1871 when a baby boy was born in a tepee village on the Dakota grasslands. His parents were Sioux and they named him Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull grew up to be a respected leader of  his people. He did not take pan in the fighting at the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn. But after the battle he defended the actions of his people:

“(…)We were camped there awaiting the will of the Great Spirit. praying to the Great Spirit to save us from the hands of our enemies. Now near and coming to complete our extermination. My men destroyed them in a very short time. Now they accuse me of slaying them. Yet what did I do? Nothing. We did not go out of our country to kill them. They came to kill us and got killed themselves. The- Great Spirit so ordered it(…)"



After their victory at the Little Big Horn the Amerindians were pursued by the army. In 1877 Sitting Bull led some of his followers to safety across he border in Canada, but in 1881 he returned to the- United States. His clothes were in rags and he-looked old and defeated. But as he handed over his rifle  to the American soldiers he told them proudly, " I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. " Sitting Bull continued to fight for the rights of his people in other ways, he criticized the American government for neglecting and cheating the Amerindians on the reservations. " It is your doing that we are here." He told a group of visiting Congressmen, " You sent Us  here and told Us to live as you do," He told them that if the government wanted the Amerindians to become like white men then it must supply them with cools, animals and wagons "because that is the way white people make a living." In 1885 the famous showman Buffalo Hill Cody offered Sitting Bull a job. He wanted the old leader to become one of the attractions of his traveling Wild West Show. The reservation authorities were glad to be rid of Sitting Bull and quickly gave hint permission to go. The following year Cody again asked Sitting Bull to join him, this time on a tour of Europe. Sitting Bull refused. "I am needed here, " lit" told Cody. "There is more talk of taking our lands. "



When the Ghost Dance movement began the government accused Sitting Bull of being its leader. In December 1890, it sent armed policemen to arrest him, As Sitting Bull stepped out of the door of his cabin on the reservation one of the policemen shot him dead. The killer was a Sioux. one of Sitting Bull's own people.

Bibliography:
1.    The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
2.    A History of American Literature, A. Grey
3.    An Outline of American History.
4.    An Illustrated History of the USA.

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