Sitting Bull
It was 1871 when a baby boy was born in a tepee village on the Dakota grasslands. Hi s parents were Sioux and they named him Sitting B ull. 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 Li ttle Big Horn the Amerindi ans were pursued by the army. In 1877 Sitting Bull led some of his followers to safety across he b orde r in Canada, but in 1881 he returne...
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