Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull

Tatanka-Iyotanka (1831-1890

Introduction

This is a biography of a great man name Tatanka- Iyontanka popularly known as Sitting Bull also nicknamed Slon-he or Slow . He was born around 1831 on Grand River which is now South Dakota . Before the people were called Lakota which means Many Caches , because they have dug many food storage pits . Sitting Bull was given the name Tatanka - Iyontanka , which describes a buffalo bull sitting intractably on its haunches . He was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man . The police on the Standing Rock

Indian Reservation was about to arrest him but he was killed to stop him from supporting the Ghost Dance movement (wikipedia .org /wiki /Sitting_Bull

Childhood ?at ?a ?ka Iyot ?a ?ka , Her-Holy-Door was the name of her mother , and Good Feather is the name of her sister which is six year older than him During his youthful years Sitting Bull became famous at foot races and an expert in horseback rider and was excellent bow and arrow player (wikipedia .org /wiki /Sitting_Bull . Since he won most of the time which gave honor to his father and to him as well , his enemy told his children to call him Slow (in which he got the nicknamed Slon-he . This has affected him and brought great dishonour to his father and to himself This has caused him to feel depressed and lonely . He was not competing that much and even loses some of his fight . His father got worried that he even asks the...