⫸ 954 Postcard Sitting Bull Sioux Native American Little Big Horn Photo 1884 New

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954 Postcard Sitting Bull Sioux Leader Indian Little Big Horn Photo 1884 - NEW
SITTING BULL, “Tatanka Iyotanka,” Hunkpapa Sioux Leader (1834-1890) Acclaimed for his vision, courage and strength in battle, Sitting Bull headed the Strong Hearts warrior society and tribal council. He actively opposed the white man’s continual encroachment of Indian land throughout the Plains Indian Wars of the 1860’s. Sitting Bull became principal chief of the Sioux nation about 1867.
The Sioux had made peace with the U.S. government and was guaranteed a reservation in southwestern South Dakota. But when gold was discovered in the Black Hills in the mid-1870s, a rush of white prospectors invaded lands guaranteed to the Indians.
In 1875, General George Crook took the field against the Sioux who were resisting the white's incursions. The Sioux then moved their encampment into the valley of the Little Bighorn River. At this point Sitting Bull performed the Sun Dance, and, when he emerged from a trance induced by the rigors of the ceremony, he reported that he had seen soldiers falling into his camp like grasshoppers from the sky. His prophecy was fulfilled on June 25, when General George Custer rode into the valley and he and all the men under his immediate command were annihilated
in the Battle of the Little Big Horn (Greasy Grass).
Strong public reaction among whites to the Battle of the Little Bighorn resulted in stepped-up military action. In May 1877, Sitting Bull led his remaining followers across the border into Canada. But the Canadian government refused to feed the people, and after four years, during which his following dwindled steadily, famine forced Sitting Bull to surrender. After 1883 he lived at the Standing Rock Agency, where he vainly opposed the sale of tribal lands. In 1885, partly to get rid of him, the Indian agent allowed him to join
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with Geronimo,
in which he gained international fame.
1889 saw the spread of the Ghost Dance religious movement, which prophesied the advent of an Indian messiah who would sweep away the whites and restore the Indians’ former traditions. The Ghost Dance movement augmented the unrest already stirred among the Sioux by hunger and disease. As a precaution, Indian police and soldiers were sent to arrest the chief. Seized on Grand River in 1890, Sitting Bull was killed while his warriors were trying to rescue him.
Photograph by Palmquist & Jurgens, 1884.”
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