Sitting Bull: liv og kamp mod den hvide mand

Sitting Bull was one of the most well-known chief Indians in North America. He was born in approximately 1834 and belonged to the Hunkpapa Teton Sioux, which lived on the prairie. In his youth, Sitting Bull decided to fight the White Man and he never changed his mind. After the battle in 1865 at the Power River, where many of his men lost their lives, he then realized that all their bravery and fighting spirit was wasted, if they only had bows and arrows to fight with; the difference between the soldier’s and the Indian’s weapons was too big. The Indians wished only to live in peace, and The Great Father, as USA’s president was called, also promised it time and time again but his promises were never kept. One of the best well-known examples is the fight of the Black Hills. In a treaty from 1869 it was written, that the holy area belonged to the Indians. But four years later when gold was found, more than a thousand of white men soon entered the area. The Indians protested in vain and denied to sell the area, and in 1876 the war began, which the Indians lost. But they won an important battle at the Little Bighorn River. One of general Custer’s officers succeeded in ambushing Sitting Bull’s camp, but Sitting Bull remained cool. He quickly gathered all of his men, and Custer’s army was totally defeated. General Custer or “Long Hair” as he was called by his enemies, was later found with many wounds on his body