The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-31
SITTING BULLS ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
dakota Correspondence OF the Chicago
Tribune.

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At Bismarck to>day rumor was cir
culated that Old Sitting Bull, an Egalel-
la chief, had been killed in the Custer
fight. This is mistake. as have since
learned that the old chief who has OF
late years been friendly to the whites.
was at Fort Seward on the day of the
Custer NJ aSsacre.
have also learned almost complete
history of the hostile warrior Sitting Bull.
He is Teton-Sioux and only thIty-five
years Of age. Captain McGarry. of the
steamer Bentrn, tells me he has known
Sitting Bull about the Upper Missouri
trading posts for many years. His prin-
cipal bartering place was at Fort Peck,
though OF late years he and his band
have followed the buffalo north on the
Souris and Pembina Rivers, and have
bartered their robes aud tongues for
guns and ammunition with the French
half.breeds OF Manitoba.
Sitting Bull was a convert and friend
OF Father DeSmet, who taught him to
read and write French. He has always
scorned to learn English, but is q far
French scholar. In the Dakota anguage
he is also versed, and declared to be a
greater orator than Little Pheasant
chict OF the lanktonnais, Captain Nc
Garry says he knows that Sitting Bull
has read the French history OF Napol-
cons wars. and believes that he has
modelled his generalship after the littl,
Corsican corporal. Sitting Bull ha
never accepted an overture of peace, tn
report that he gave in his adhesion I,
Sully to the contrary Notwithstanding
He has always be en- an uni elenting AM
yihdictive savage-tO the American
what Schamyl was to the Russians. Fa
. Their DeSmet kept the Teton>Sionx tror
r the war-path until 1868. He then lei
the Upper Missouri. and Sitting Bull be
: came chief. No organized effort Wa
> made to array the Sioux nation agains
). the whites until after the Mianeso,
. massacres of 1878. when the Sioux wel
+. driven west OF the Missouri into the ba
lands and Mountains of Dakota. Sittln
$ Bull aspired to the leadership, but Re
: Cloud, Spotted Tail, Little Pheasant an
/ the Ogalalla Sitting Bull chiefs repud
ated him. From that time he has been
malcontent and at war with the chiefs
; the Sioux nation. though he has by b
pNlS uASANc ais VI Ok1@OIS ScUuCcU ku1L
y hundreds Of their young braves into b
:. ranks. He is largely reinforced /
- young braves from the Crees and ASSN
q iboins of Manitoba. Every sumner Il
J. five years he has been up north anon
these tribes. and now they are fockir
to his standard. Ifthese reports are
be believed. and l have no reason
81 question them. when he next makes
= stand against the federal troops be VI
ID have in the neighborhood of i've thou
i. and warriors, every one armed with I
: peating-rifies
A great deal is expected from Sittil
Bulls inability 10 take care OF the wonn
ed already on his hands. and which is
sacred duty among the Indians. If
to has not sent his wounded north amor
n bis Manitoba friends, he will do SO b
in fore he hazards another fight. T
40 telesraphic report OF Captain Smith, "
ed brought Renos wounded down, u
Terry had found the biers OF the nj
t. Chiefs killed in the engagument vi
n Custer - . mistake. They ware the /
sir mains Of sub chiofs and braves killed