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Sitting Bull Monument
Sitting Bull, Thathanjka Iyotake
in Lakota, was nicknamed Slon-he or Slow, and was the famous
Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man that led his nation as a war chief
when they were on the warpath with the United States. Sitting Bull
was born by the Grand River in South Dakota, and named Slon-He or
Slow when he was young, and in true Lakota tradition given one of
his father's names after doing so well in a war party. At 14 years
old, he led the charge against a Crow war party, before they could
act, which resulted in all of his followers coming through unharmed.
It was Sitting Bull that overcame the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of
the Little Big Horn and George Custer in 1876. It fulfilled his
premonition that the Native Americans would beat the cavalry, and
seven months after the battle, left the area for Wood Mountain,
Saskatchewan, Canada, staying there until 1881. He then came back to
the region and surrendered to the army, where they were settled in
the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Sitting Bull touring with
Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show for a while.
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