Sitting Bull，Born in March 1831 in the United States, the United States is the tribal leader of the Soviet union. At the same time, he is a brave warrior, the leader of the tribe of a crow who carried out a series of conquests. Died in December 15, 1890.
Wavoka and Sitting Bull
The northern region, he, Sitting Bull was born in March 1831 in South Dakota today when young, he was good at thinking and became his tribe' s leader when he was 14.
If he were born early, he might become a great and wealthy Indian chief. But in the second half of the nineteenth Century, his rule is a decline in the nation.
His Canadian army officer, who had written an article to commemorate his death, had heard of his death. He to Sitting Bull has very high evaluation: like "Crazy Horse" and "Sitting Bull" such a person, a lifetime hand blade too many white, finally not die on the battlefield, but was murdered, such a lifetime also value.
Wavoca, Indian religious leader, was very influential. Wavoca declared that the great God chose him to find a new world for the Indians. He said that the new world will soon be coming, and will be a very wonderful world, in this new world, there will be no white, all the dead Indians will be raised. Wavoca warned that the new country would flood the world like a flood. He said that the Indians would avoid being destroyed by jumping a special kind of dance called the ghost dance. Wavoka said the ghost dance can to Indian power, so as to protect the Indians invulnerable and can no longer be white bullet damage.
In nineteenth Century, the federal government of the United States to drive the Indians to live in the reserve, the Indians can no longer be as free as the original killing of the buffalo on the prairie, the white man is to settle down. This situation is the result of violence. This week, we continue to tell you the story of the massacre of Indians in the United States.
The federal government sent troops to force the Indians to move to the reserve, but it was hard for the army to do so. Every spring, the Indians would leave the reservation, they want to the plains to hunt Buffalo, they kill bison sometimes raid white houses, they stole white horses and cattle, to the summer, these fierce article went back to reserve. Then, the federal government to the Indian food to prepare for the winter.
As time went by, there were not many Indians to leave the reserve to the grassland to kill the buffalo, and they became very difficult to kill the buffalo. Now the grassland is empty. Is a few years ago, in this piece of prairie life millions of bison, with cross-country railway construction, white ensues, and claims to have this piece of grassland, they in their settlement around the fence, the cowboys from Texas cattle came to this place, they drive the bison, even the killing of the buffalo. The Indians tried to stop the white man for the buffalo slaughter, angry Indians often attacked the white buffalo hunting, but due to the white man's weapons too powerful, the White army kill and arrested many of the Indians. In the end, the vast majority of the Indians gave up the struggle, and they surrendered their weapons and horses. They returned to the reserve and became a farmer.
All of this happened in the now the heart of the south, and in the far north, the other a American government and American Indians the other a conflict occurred in Sioux tribe. Sioux once in 1868 and the government signed a treaty, the treaty provisions to now Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming give Sioux tribe as their reservation. South Dakota Territory of the Black Hills (Black Hills) is part of the Sioux reservations. These hills for the Sioux is an important place. According to their religion, Black mountain is a holy land, the center of the world, the place where God lives, and here is the place where the Indian soldiers go to the dialogue with God.
In 1873, Black mountain became a very important place for the white man, because gold was discovered here. For the white man who came out of the wild, the religious belief of the Indians and the treaties signed with the government were nothing. At the beginning, the Indians killed some of the miners, the other miners away. But more miners came. Sioux tribe consult government take strong means to carry out the treaty between them, the tribal leader consult government lets the White left their reservation. The army sent soldiers to drive the miners, the soldiers ordered the miners left the Indian reservations, but the soldiers there is no how seriously to drive off white. The Indians protested again. The government sent officials with the Indians to talk again, to reach a new treaty, the new provisions of the treaty and the Sioux Indians to give up the Black Hills.
Some of the Indian leaders refused to negotiate with the government, one refused the invitation to participate in the negotiations of the Indian leader called sitting. Bor, Sitting Bull), his two fingers to pinch a little gray said: "even at this point, I won't an inch of land sold by the government."
However, this resistance did not prevent the government get the Black Hills for the miners to. The war minister sent Kreuk George (Crook George) to punish the Indians, to drive the Indians back to their reservations. Crook led a large force stationed in Sioux County, he upset the an Indian village, snatch hundreds of horses, a few months later, the village experienced the same plunder. This time, the Indian resistance was not the same as before, the Indians of the United States against the government forces suffered the worst defeat in nearly a century.
The battle occurred near the Little Bighorn River (little Bighorn River) in the, George. Custer General George Custer led 212 people in search of the Indian leader Kretz. Horse, crazy horse. When general Custer was ready to pass through the valley, he sent a man to the front to explore. His people came back to report that thousands of Indians were preparing to launch attacks against them. Custer refused to listen to their report, he led the troops forward. Soon, his troops were surrounded by Indians, in less than an hour's time, the Indians killed Custer and he led the all people, the bodies of white soldiers scattered at Little Bighorn, Custer's name because in a battle to become the symbol of foolish and disappeared in the history. Little Bighorn battle is a major failure of the U. S. government forces, but Indians victory did not last long. Within a year, the military government forced most of the Sioux Indians surrendered, the government finally lake mountain to the mining, the Indians to a new reservation.
In the next few years, the same experience took place in some other Indian tribes in the West. Under the strong pressure on the white settlers, the federal government continue to put the belonging to the Indian land to white settlers, Indian reservation is getting smaller and smaller. Therefore, West Indian tribe a then a completely changed, fierce Indian fighter into the need to rely on government funding of farmers, they become more and more weak, their spirit ceased to exist. An Indian chief. His name is black. Echo (Black Elk) well describes the Indians of the tragic situation in at that time, he is the survivor in a battle, the battle occurred at Wounded Knee. In the battle, many Indian women and children had been murdered. A few years later, Blake. Echo says: "I don't know have many Indians here were slaughtered, when I stand in retrospectively the hills of everything that happened in the past, I still see the hills throughout the body. At the same time, in addition to the bodies, I also see blood and dilute the mud and buried everything was, I saw the Indian dream disappear."
During this very difficult period, some people began to turn to religion. There was an Indian religious leader named Wavica (Wavoka), and it was very influential. Wavica declared that the great God chose him to find a new world for the Indians. He said that the new world will soon be coming, and will be a very wonderful world, in this new world, there will be no white, all the dead Indians will be raised. Wavica warned that the new country would flood the world like a flood, and he said that the Indians would avoid being destroyed by jumping into a special kind of dance called the Dance Ghost. Wavoka said the ghost dance can to Indian power, so as to protect the Indians invulnerable and can no longer be white bullet damage.
America West, thousands of hundreds of Indians are listening to wavoka missionary, they trust him, and they began to every day to jump up to several hours of the ghost dance. On the Sioux reservations, all other activities are stopped, kids won't go to school, all the people as well as dancing, what also can not do. This situation frightened the white man, who tried to arrest some of the Indian leaders to stop them from jumping into the ghost dance. The arrest of the white man led to the battle, which eventually led to the destruction of the Indians, and the war between the white and the Indians ended. Wavoka told his followers said: "our footprint in the steppe and the sand, we failed to find any more our footprint. Today, I call on you to find a new path, a path that is open to the white man."
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