Sitting Bull
Prabhjot Singh
Professor Shukis-Fraser
English 101
24 March 2013
Sitting Bull Fearless, spiritual, and inspirational are some of the words to describe Sitting Bull. Two different stories tell us about the life of Sitting Bull; one story was written in the early twentieth century and the other one was written in the early twenty first century. Sitting Bull was a chief leader who fought against the white army men to protect the land of his tribes and his people. In 1911, the story of Sitting Bull was published in the encyclopedia which had a different point of view from the story that was published in 2001. In the 1911 story, Sitting Bull comes from a tribe called Dakota Sioux. He led attacks on white settlers in Iowa and Minnesota during the Civil War. His father was also a chief of the Dakota Sioux tribe. Sitting Bull had pretended to make peace with the whites, but he attacked them many times. Fearing he would have gotten punished for being in the massacre that killed General George A. Custer, he fled to Canada. When he had returned, there was a rumor that Indians were going to strike the whites, but the whites took action before it happened and arrested Sitting Bull from his house. Indian supports tried to protect Sitting Bull from getting arrested and in the scuffle Sitting Bull was shot and killed. Sitting Bull proved to be fearless by trying to save his land and people from the whites by attacking them. The 2001 story of Sitting Bull was much more detailed. In this Sitting Bull comes from the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe. He first went to battle with the whites when he was fourteen years old to fight for the welfare for his tribe. Sitting Bull also had a vision where he saw soldiers coming to attack them like grasshoppers falling from the sky. The vision came true where the army kept fighting the Indians and forced them to move into Canada. After four years have gone by, Sitting Bull and his tribe had to come back to the United States because there was no
Professor Shukis-Fraser
English 101
24 March 2013
Sitting Bull Fearless, spiritual, and inspirational are some of the words to describe Sitting Bull. Two different stories tell us about the life of Sitting Bull; one story was written in the early twentieth century and the other one was written in the early twenty first century. Sitting Bull was a chief leader who fought against the white army men to protect the land of his tribes and his people. In 1911, the story of Sitting Bull was published in the encyclopedia which had a different point of view from the story that was published in 2001. In the 1911 story, Sitting Bull comes from a tribe called Dakota Sioux. He led attacks on white settlers in Iowa and Minnesota during the Civil War. His father was also a chief of the Dakota Sioux tribe. Sitting Bull had pretended to make peace with the whites, but he attacked them many times. Fearing he would have gotten punished for being in the massacre that killed General George A. Custer, he fled to Canada. When he had returned, there was a rumor that Indians were going to strike the whites, but the whites took action before it happened and arrested Sitting Bull from his house. Indian supports tried to protect Sitting Bull from getting arrested and in the scuffle Sitting Bull was shot and killed. Sitting Bull proved to be fearless by trying to save his land and people from the whites by attacking them. The 2001 story of Sitting Bull was much more detailed. In this Sitting Bull comes from the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe. He first went to battle with the whites when he was fourteen years old to fight for the welfare for his tribe. Sitting Bull also had a vision where he saw soldiers coming to attack them like grasshoppers falling from the sky. The vision came true where the army kept fighting the Indians and forced them to move into Canada. After four years have gone by, Sitting Bull and his tribe had to come back to the United States because there was no