It was long after the day of the dog-travaux, and his father owned many ponies of variegated colors. Sitting BullвЂ™s boyhood must have been a happy one. The other died later from the effects of the wound. In this case, both men dealt a mortal stroke, and Jumping Buffalo, the father of Sitting Bull, fell from his saddle and died in a few minutes. In a hand-to-hand combat of this sort, we count the victor as entitled to a war bonnet of trailing plumes. One day, when the Unkpapa were attacked by a large war party of Crow, he fell upon the enemyвЂ™s war leader with his knife. The manner of this manвЂ™s death was characteristic. His father was one of the best-known members of the Unkpapa band of Sioux. He was gifted with the power of sarcasm, and few have used it more artfully than he. He was most serious when he seemed to be joking. He was not impulsive, nor was he phlegmatic. There are few to whom his name is not familiar, and still fewer who have learned to connect it with anything more than the conventional notion of a bloodthirsty savage. It is not easy to characterize Sitting Bull, of all SiouxВ chiefs most generally known to the American people.

If we must dieвЂ¦we die defending our rights.вЂќ вЂ“ Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Sioux (Tatanka Iyotake) It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

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