The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-23

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astrids the iillen bod q ebqffaio bull
he had tust shot The supposedly dead
blaon staggered e its feet and set
OH ara numbering gaiiop; the young
lsion1 Tatahka- Yo-Tanka still sit
ting on its lhodlders. At last With
lis knife. the'Indidn managed 70 .slay
his strange mount. From this adyen-
tiire he is said to have won the nick
name Of Sitting Bull Is;
Sitting Bull was a medicine naaa;s
as Web as a chief. Medicine menwere
not only doctors, but were also sup
posed to be ID close senmmppIcn gith
the Great sblrlta and to IS endowed
With Supernatural pow Fl BY hymne,
by the rafting d drums etc, thsy
stirred their people TO action; BY hyp.
notisn, "magIC spells and pretended
messages from the Crest Spirit they
commanded obedience and yeneraton.
Sitting belonged 10 the qncpe-
% tribe OF the Sioux nation. BE vas
born at Willow Creek. Dakota. ID 1887.
OF a little more than medium height.
he was powerfully built. was pallld
and pockmarked Of face. and-upusual
among Indlans-had rather light
brown hair. From thIA peculiarly
arose the runOr that he was a rene
gade West Point cadet. ~
As q young man, Sitting Bull en-
joyed an unsaSory record as q muir
derer, horse thief and frontier raider.
In 1852 he led the Sioux In a series
of rnassacres on the settlers Of Mime
sofa and Iowa. = 4
The rush Of gold seekers 70, the
Black Hills began. There was an In
slant clash between the miners and
the local Sioux. The latter hndirg
themselves Spitsd from their ls1di.
rallied to Sitting Bulls standard and
went on the xsgpath. They pldhi
dered, burned and killed: their bloody
path lying through huge districts Of
wyoming and Montana, The govern.
ment ordered out troops under Gems.
Terry and Crook to drive them back
Is their reservation. Instead of re:
turning home, Sitting Bun with about
1900 warriors retreated toward the
Big Horn mountains. with the Sioux
we're ehostile" Indians from other
tribes heyennes, Bannocls.s etc.
They had stolen many cattle and
horses and had become drunk with the
loye OF freedom and bloodshed. They
we're In no mood to surrender. Gen
eral Custer andMai6f Reno were sent
To- ind where the Sioux army was
'hidldg. On the morning OF June 90
1875, they discovered Sitting Bdh's
camp on the Little BIZ : Horn river.
Custer, thanks 10 a!Gleyer ruse Of the
medicine man was quite deeetYed as
Is the number d his FOES; Instead 'Sf
withdrawing Or waiting for rein.
jforceaents, he divided hts force to az.
tack the camp from different sides.
AT the head 81 one detachment about
900 men-.Custtt rode bltndiy into .
battle-or, rather, am ambash-ft6u
which neither be nor one white man
with him came out alive. Reno, With
most of Clusters remaining uopts;
was cooped lip o. a hill By gwafms l6f
indians and barely escaped. ~ y,
49, cps.r's Death. III. N /,
lt.Ras sitting Bull who had planned
this death trap for Clusters soldiers.
But in the battle itself. Gall, war chief
of the Sioux, was the actual command.
er. Sitting Bull took no part in the
fight. He sat a the door Of his tent
we'll out Of bullet range, bowling
hymns to the Great Spirit and working
spells Of jugglery for his warriors sue
cess.
knowing the government would take
swift revenge for Custer's death, SIT
ting Bull Tetrssted, fighti9g, before
the soldiers advance and at last qui.
city slipped over the borderfinto Can
ada, where he was safe from pursuit.
There he stayed until the coqntry's
first cIamor otlfage had died down.
When he was called upon TO surren-
der; Sitting Bullsammed up the whole
Indian question Ia this savage reply:
mo Indian ever lived who loved
the white man, and no white man ever
lived who loved the Indian The
Great Spirit made me an Inalant but
he did not make me q slave to the
white man, and ! will not, pc one.
Your government has made ffty-two
treaties with the Sioux and has kept
none OF them"
In 1881 sittfng Bull accepted terms
OF peace and came. back to the United
States. There he settled near the
Standing Rock agency in North Da-
kota. He made several tours Of the
east, was on exhibition In New York
and elsewhere, and earned money sell.
ing his pictures and autographs. His
adventurous career seemed at an end.
But a few years later he was busy as
Of old stirring sp his nation to dis.
content, advising them not to give up
their remaining land to the white
man. and transmitting to them fiery
messages from the Great Spirit. He
was in 1889 one Of the preashsts li
not the secret orIginator) OF DOC
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