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The Life Of Sitting Bull

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Early life
Sitting Bull was born in Dakota Territory. He was named Jumping Badger at birth, when he was fourteen years old he accompanied a group of Lakota warriors (which included his father and his uncle Four Horns) in a raiding party to take horses from a camp of Crow warriors. Jumping Badger displayed bravery by riding forward and counting coup on one of the surprised Crow, which was witnessed by the other mounted Lakota. Upon returning to camp his father gave a celebratory feast at which he conferred his own name upon his son.
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The name, Tȟatȟaŋka Iyotȟaŋka (Tatanka Iyotake), which in the Lakota language means "Buffalo Bull Sits Down", would later be abbreviated to "Sitting Bull". Thereafter, Sitting Bull 's father was known as Jumping Bull. At this ceremony before the entire band, Sitting Bull 's father presented his son with an eagle feather to wear in his hair, a warrior 's horse, and a hardened buffalo hide shield to mark his son 's passage into manhood as a Lakota warrior.
Red Clouds War
From 1866 to 1868, Red Cloud as a leader of the Lakota fought against US forces, attacking their forts in an effort to keep control of the Powder River Country of Montana. In support of him, Sitting Bull led numerous war parties against Fort Berthold, Fort Stevenson, and Fort Buford and their environs from 1865 through 1868. By early 1868, the U.S. government desired a peaceful settlement to Red Clouds War. Signed a form of the Treaty of Fort Laramie on July 2, 1868

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