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Sitting Bull's defense of his land was rooted both in the history of his culture and in the fate he believed awaited his people. At a Sun Dance ceremony on the Little Bighorn River, where a large community of Native Americans had established a village, Sitting Bull danced for 36 consecutive hours, slashed his arms as a sign of sacrifice and deprived himself of drinking water.
At the end of this spiritual ceremony, he informed villagers that he had received a vision in which the American army was defeated. In June , just a few days later, the chief led a successful battle against American forces in the Battle of the Rosebud.
There, Sitting Bull led thousands of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors against Custer's undermanned force, wiping out the American general and his plus men. For the U. To escape its wrath, Sitting Bull led his people into Canada, where they remained for four years.
In , Sitting Bull returned to the Dakota territory, where he was held prisoner until He was shocked by the poverty he saw in the cities, and coupled with the hatred that was directed toward him by some of the show's audience members, Sitting Bull decided to return to his people. Back home, in a cabin on the Grand River not far from where he'd been born, Sitting Bull lived his life without compromise.
He rejected Christianity and continued to honor his people's way of life. In , Native Americans began to take up the Ghost Dance, a ceremony aimed at ridding the land of white people and restore the Native American way of life.
Cody and Sitting Bull Cody, who had served as a scout during the war but never encountered Sitting Bull on the battlefield, had a complicated relationship with the Sioux warrior.
On one level, they were friendly enough, and Buffalo Bill termed him "that wonderful old fighting man. But then in , a mystic named Wovoka begin having visions during a solar eclipse that the white man would vanish if Indians would perform "ghost dances. Alarmed federal officials feared a general uprising, and one sent Cody on a mission to negotiate with his old show business comrade.
But the two never met — on December 14, , Sitting Bull was shot by a group of Indian police who had been sent to arrest him. In the midst of the gunfire, Sitting Bull's stage horse, a gift from Cody, began performing its old routine, lifting its leg as if to shake hands. Cody would later say that if he'd only gotten to Sitting Bull in time, the whole tragedy would have been avoided. Annie Oakley was even more blunt. At ten he killed his first buffalo and at fourteen counted his first coup on an enemy and received his adult name.
By he was the leader of the Strong Heart Warrior society. Laramie Treaty signed by Red Cloud in When the U. Government agencies attached to reservations, the line was drawn.
By June of a village of between twelve and fifteen thousand Plains Indians had assembled along the Little Bighorn River. At the end of the dance Sitting Bull told his people of his vision of seeing U.
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