Chief Sitting Bull

"My feather is, and always will be, bigger than yours..."

From Wiki:

"Sitting Bull 1831 – December 15, 1890 was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man, who led his people as a war chief during years of resistance to United States government policies.

He is notable in American and Native American history for his role in the major victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment on June 25, 1876, where Sitting Bull's premonition of defeating the cavalry became reality. Seven months after the battle, Sitting Bull and his group left the United States for Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, where they remained until 1881.

Sitting Bull returned with most of his band to the US and surrendered, coming to live at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the Dakotas.

After his return to the United States, he briefly toured as a performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. After working as a performer, Sitting Bull returned to the Standing Rock Agency in South Dakota.

Because of fears that he would use his influence to support the Ghost Dance movement, Indian Service agent James McLaughlin at Fort Yates ordered his arrest. During a struggle between Sitting Bull's followers and the agency police, his supporters fired at police. Standing Rock policemen Tatankapah and Marcelus Chankpidutah shot Sitting Bull in the side and head in return fire.

Sitting Bull became a Sioux holy man,during his early twenties. His responsibilities as a holy man included understanding the complex religious rituals and beliefs of the Sioux, and also learning about natural phenomena that were related to the Sioux beliefs. Sitting Bull had an "intense spirituality that pervaded his entire being in his adult years and that fueled a constant quest for an understanding of the universe and of the ways in which he personally could bring its infinite powers to the benefit of his people." Sitting Bull knew techniques of healing and carried medicinal herbs, so he was commonly called a medicine man.

Because of his status as a wichasha wakan, Sitting Bull was a member of the Buffalo Society, a dream society for those who dreamt of buffalo. He also was a member of the Heyókȟa, a society for those who dreamed of thunderbirds."



How cool is it that they had a society for those who dreamed of thunderbirds?

WOWAHWA TANKAL! (Peace Out)