3/9/2023 0 Comments Last man sitting with bulls![]() ![]() He rejected the offer and moved his people into Canada to the Wood Mountain area, which at the time was part of the North West Territories but today is southern Saskatchewan. Unfortunately, this victory caused the United States to push for revenge and while Sitting Bull attempted to negotiate peace, the Americans wanted him to surrender their guns, horses and move to reserves. George Custer and his 262 men in a stunning victory. In the battle, the forces of Sitting Bull defeated Lt. This would lead to the famous Battle of Little Big Horn on Jin what would be the state of Montana. As the Sioux and Cheyenne began to resist the encroachment, the Great Sioux War, also known as the Black Hills War, of 1876 began. The land had been given to the Sioux under a treaty in 1868 but the military didn’t want to evict the new settlers who were coming into the area. In the 1870s, gold was discovered in what would one day be South Dakota, bringing huge numbers of prospectors and settlers into the area, pushing onto the lands of the Sioux. ![]() ![]() As a leader of the resistance against American expansion, he emerged as a leader among his people. As a young man, he was trained as a warrior and a medicine man who lived in a time when the traditional life of his people was being challenged by the growing number of white settlers coming into the traditional lands of the Lakota. Although I will go into a bit about his life before and after his time in Canada. This episode isn’t about the life of Sitting Bull, but the time he spent in Canada. Born in 1831, he would become the leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota people, also known as the Sioux, leading his people during the years of resistance against the United States and their policies of pushing the Indigenous off their lands. Sitting Bull is arguably one of the most famous Indigenous individuals to ever live. ![]()
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