The Sitting Bull Surrender Census

The Sitting Bull Surrender Census
Author: Ephriam D. Dickson
Publisher: South Dakota State Hist Society
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780982274972

Never-before published census taken in 1881

Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War

Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War
Author: Dennis C. Pope
Publisher: SDSHS Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0982274947

After Sitting Bull's surrender at Fort Buford in what is now North Dakota in 1881, the United States Army transported the chief and his followers down the Missouri River to Fort Randall, roughly seventy miles west of Yankton. The famed Hunkpapa leader remained there for twenty-two months as a prisoner of war.

The Surrender of Sitting Bull (Expanded, Annotated)

The Surrender of Sitting Bull (Expanded, Annotated)
Author: Edward H. Fish Allison
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2019-01-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781793375865

Civil War veteran, Edward Allison, was a trusted scout and interpreter on the Upper Missouri during the Indian Wars. He was tasked by General Terry (commander of the ill-fated expedition that resulted in the disaster at the Little Bighorn) to negotiate with Sitting Bull and Gall to bring their people into the reservation.This is Allison's own account of that trip to Canada and back, which resulted in the surrender of these two proud, important Hunkpapa leaders. Both had been at the Little Bighorn and it was Sitting Bull's vision at the 1876 sun dance that predicted a great victory for the Sioux and Cheyenne.Though some later questioned Allison's account, a 1933 analysis by the Bureau of American Ethnology bore out the accuracy of his claims. You'll find his story is neither boastful nor fanciful, but a faithful account of negotiations with Indian leaders he admired and liked. He rode with the Sioux on their journey into Fort Buford and relates several exciting incidents along the way.

The Surrender of Sitting Bull

The Surrender of Sitting Bull
Author: Edwin Henry Allison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1891
Genre: Dakota Indians
ISBN:

After service in the Army during the Civil War, Allison went to the Dakotas in 1867 where he married into the Brulé tribe and became proficient as an Indian interpreter.

Prairie Man

Prairie Man
Author: Norman E. Matteoni
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2015-06-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442244763

One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had resisted the United States’ intrusions into Lakota prairie land for years, refused to sign treaties, and called for a gathering of tribes at Little Big Horn. He epitomized resistance. Sitting Bull’s role at Little Big Horn has been the subject of hundreds of historical works, but while Sitting Bull was in fact present, he did not engage in the battle. The conflict with Custer was a benchmark to the subsequent events. There are other battles than those of war, and the conflict between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin was one of those battles. Theirs was a fight over the hearts and minds of the Lakota. U.S. Government policy toward Native Americans after Little Big Horn was to give them a makeover as Americans after finally and firmly displacing them from their lands. They were to be reconstituted as Christian, civilized and made farmers. Sitting Bull, when forced to accept reservation life, understood who was in control, but his view of reservation life was very different from that of the Indian Bureau and its agents. His people’s birth right was their native heritage and culture. Although redrawn by the Government, he believed that the prairie land still held a special meaning of place for the Lakota. Those in power dictated a contrary view – with the closing of the frontier, the Indian was challenged to accept the white road or vanish, in the case of the Lakota, that position was given personification in the form of Agent James McLaughlin. This book explores the story within their conflict and offers new perspectives and insights.

Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull
Author: Ernie LaPointe
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1423612663

An intimate portrait of the Lakota chief by his great-grandson. Ernie LaPointe, born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, is a great-grandson of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota chief Sitting Bull, and in this book, the first by one of Sitting Bull’s lineal descendants, he presents the family tales and memories told to him about his great-grandfather. LaPointe not only recounts the rich oral history of his family—the stories of Sitting Bull’s childhood, his reputation as a fierce warrior, his growth into a sage and devoted leader of his people, and the betrayal that led to his murder—but also explains what it means to be Lakota in the time of Sitting Bull and now. In many ways, the oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Sitting Bull. LaPointe explains the discrepancies, how they occurred, and why he wants to tell his story of Tatanka Iyotake. This is a powerful story of Native American history, told by a Native American, for all people to better understand a culture, a leader, and a man.

Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood

Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood
Author: Gary C. Anderson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2023-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1496232674

In this biography Gary C. Anderson profiles Sitting Bull, a military and spiritual leader of the Lakota people who remained a staunch defender of his nation and way of life until his untimely death.