Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull (1831– December 15, 1890), Sitting Bull was a Sioux, born near the Grand River in South Dakota. He was killed by police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him and prevent him from supporting the “Ghost Dance Movement”. At the core of the movement was the “prophet” of peace called Jack Wilson, he “prophesied” an end to white American expansion while preaching messages of morality and cultural cooperation. He is known for his role in the victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry on June 25, 1876. In the months after the battle, Sitting Bull fled the US to Wood Mountain in Canada; where he remained until 1881. But in the year 1881, American forces surrounded Sitting Bull and his clan called the Sioux. A small number of Sioux’s remained in Wood Mountain under the authority of Chief Wambligi. When Sitting Bull returned to the US, Indian Affairs authorities ordered his arrest. The reason why they wanted sitting bull arrested is they feared he would use his influence to support the movement. During a struggle between Sitting Bull's followers and the police, while they were firing upon by his supporters, Sitting Bull was shot in the side and head by the American Police. Sitting Bull’s body was buried at Fort Yates.

An example of Sitting Bull’s story relates to events that occur in today world; The Treaty of Fort Laramie (also called the Sioux Treaty of 1868) was an agreement between the United States and the Lakota nation, Yanktonai Sioux, Santee Sioux, and Arapaho signed in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Sitting Bull did not agree to sign the agreement; he did not want America to tell them what to do. The same situation happens today, America has tried every thing in its power to get Israel and Palestine to sign peace treaties; but they refuse to sign the peace treaties.
There are 2 biases inherited in the research of Sitting Bull. The fighting from 1863 to 1864 caused Sitting Bull to hate the inhabitation of whites in Sioux territories, and he assumed a sense of uncompromising warfare against whites that would characterize him for the rest of his life. That is a racial bias emotion; he let the actions of certain white people who did the wrong thing of driving them out of their land, causing to hate the race of white Americans. Sitting Bull was a “holy” man who only who do the acts, that would “benefit” his people alone”, that is a racial bias emotion because he would do these actions a “holy” man who would, to the benefit of his own people.
There are 2 difficult questions raised by the historical research of Sitting Bull. The United States made treaties with the Native Americans, but during the 1850 to the 1860’s America started to violate its peace treaties with the Native Americans. The first question is why would America start to violate, its peace treaties with the Native Americans? In the Battle of Killdeer Mountain, Sitting Bull and the Siarmy had 5,000 “soldiers”, they were facing the army controlled by General Sully who had 2,500. Even though, the Sioux had double the amount of “soldiers” they lost the battle. The second question is why were the Sioux defeated by the US army?
In this essay I discovered that Sitting Bull did not like white Americans, because they took the land that originally belonged to the Sioux. I learned that there people like Sitting Bull do not like peace agreement that stops their own desires from being fulfilled. There were questions I wanted to know about dealt with Peace relations between whites and Native Americans. When the Americans took over the Sioux territory, Sitting Bull led attacks against them due to racial anger against whites. I hope you enjoyed this thoughtfully written essay.