Question

Can you please write a one page essay on the life and accomplishments of Sitting Bull. Thank you!

Answer 1

• Sitting Bull (c.1831-1890) was the Native American chief under whom the Sioux tribes united in their struggle for survival on the North American Great Plains. Following the discovery of gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1874, the Sioux came into increased conflict with U.S. authorities.
• Sitting Bull, born in 1831 near the shores of the Grand River located in the Dakota Territory. As a holy man and the tribal chief he led led several attacks on U.S. forts in the West, and he played a role in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.He was named Jumping Badger at birth and was conferred the name of Sitting Bull as a teenager.
• He grew up to be a skilled warrior and a brave young man. He accompanied a group of Lakota warriors as a 14 year old as a part of a raiding party to take horses from a camp of Crow warriors. He displayed great valor during the raid despite his young age, and a ceremony was held after the successful raid to mark the boy’s passage into manhood as a Lakota warrior.
• As a young man, he was chosen as leader of the Strong Heart Society of warriors, and later became involved with the Silent Eaters, a select group concerned with tribal welfare. As a tribal leader he helped extend the Sioux hunting grounds.
• He fought against the United States army for the first time in June 1863, and again fought against them the following year at the Battle of Killdeer Mountain.
• He proved himself to be a very courageous warrior and led an attack on the newly built Fort Rice in what is now called North Dakota in 1865. The very next year, he was made the principal chief of the northern hunting Sioux, with Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, as his vice-chief.
  
• A major accomplishment of Sitting Bull is he defeated a LT Col in the battle of Little Bighorn by poking the leader with a co op stick. He earned the rank chief of his tribe after his father died. He stood up to the U.S government when they tried to take his land. Sitting Bull was in the war of the Sioux.