Dohmens sitting bull biography
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Sitting Bull’s Early Life
Sitting Bull's tepee and family.
Sitting Bull was born in 1831 near Grand River, Dakota Territory in what is today South Dakota.
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He was the son of Returns-Again, a renowned Sioux warrior who named his son “Jumping Badger” at birth. The young boy killed his first buffalo at age 10 and by 14, joined his father and uncle on a raid of a Crow camp. After the raid, his father renamed him Tatanka Yotanka, or Sitting Bull, for his bravery.
Sitting Bull soon joined the Strong Heart warrior society and the Silent Eaters, a group that ensured the welfare of the tribe.
He led the expansion of Sioux hunting grounds into westward territories previously inhabited by the Assiniboine, Crow and Shoshone, among others.
Sitting Bull Resists U.S. Government
Sitting Bull first battled the U.S.
Army in June of 1863, when they came after the Santee Sioux (not the Dakota) in retaliation for the Minnesota Uprising, sparked when federal agents withheld food from the Sioux li
