![]() ![]() ![]() Fighting started to break out between Lakota warriors and white soldiers. But, Sitting Bull tells us, the white man came to land with two faces - talking about peace, but taking whatever they wanted. It didn't take long for them to begin taking over the Great Plains. That's when his father gave him the shield and lance of a Lakota warrior, and the name Sitting Bull, "symbolizing a powerful buffalo that holds his ground and never backs down." (pg 6)īy the mid-1800s, wasichus, or white men, were beginning to cross through Lakota territory heading west. ![]() At age 10, he killed his first buffalo, and at 14, he earned his first eagle feather after a successful raid on their Crow enemy. Unlike most biographies narrated by a third person, Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of his People is told to us by the spirit of Sitting Bull himself.īorn in 1831, a member of the Hunkpapa band, one of the seven Lakota tribes of the Great Plains, Sitting Bull's was originally named Jumping Badger. After seeing all the references to Sitting Bull while reading In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III, I decided to to read S.D. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |