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A Brief Sitting Bull Timeline
Ca. 1831 born near mouth of Grand River
1864 July: with Inkpaduta and Gall at Battle of Killdeer Mountain
Helps repatriate Fanny Kelly
September: at the siege of Fort Dilts, wounded in hip
1865 wounded in foot during battle with Crow
1865-1868 attacks on army posts at Fort Berthold, Fort Stevenson, and Fort Buford in today’s North Dakota
1871 & 1873 attacks survey crews for Northern Pacific Railroad
1876 during June sun dance, has vision of soldiers falling into the Lakota camps
1877 May—goes with 400 followers to Canada
1881 July 19—gives himself up at Fort Buford
1883 May—permitted to return to Standing Rock
1890 December 15—assassinated at his cabin on Grand River
1953 Sitting Bull’s “remains” moved to South Dakota
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country? God made me an Indian.
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A Brief Sitting Bull Bibliography
Bobby Bridger. Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West.
Evan S. Connell. Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn.
Ian Frazier. Great Plains.
Paul Hedren. After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country.
*Jeffrey Ostler. The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee.
Louis L. Pfaller. James McLaughlin: The Man With an Indian Heart.
Nathaniel Philbrick. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
*Ellen Pollack. Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull.
Stanley Vestal. Sitting Bull.
Robert Utley. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull.
*Bill Yenne. Sitting Bull.