Chief Sitting Bull: Tatanka Yotanka (Tatȟáŋka Íyotake) - Sioux - Life, Land & People

This is a collection of some of Grandfather Chief Sitting Bull’s quotes, wisdom and life. There is also a much more in-depth biography video for him in this channel, loaded January 2021. ----------------------------------------- Sitting Bull () was the Native American chief under whom the Sioux tribes united in their struggle for survival on the North American Great Plains. Following the discovery of gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1874, the Sioux came into increased conflict with U.S. authorities. The Great Sioux wars of the 1870s would culminate in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, in which Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and a confederation of tribes would defeat federal troops under George Armstrong Custer. After several years in Canada, Sitting Bull finally surrendered to U.S. forces with his people on the brink of starvation, and was finally forced to settle on a reservation. In 1890, Sitting Bull was shot and killed while being arrested by U.S. and Indi