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Did You Know That Sitting Bull Was a Part of This Traveling Show?Sitting Bull has long been held as one of the most recognizable and influential American Indian leaders in history. It is said that he killed his first buffalo age the tender age of 10-years-old. This young boy would become a warrior and then a leader of all his people. So how did he end up performing in a Wild West show?Born around 1831 the young warrior, Sitting Bull, was renowned for his quiet mannerisms and his fierce fighting style. By the time he was in his 30s his reputation had grown, as had the expansion of white settlers into Lakota territory. A new position was created to unite all the Lakota bands, a first in their history. Sitting Bull became leader of the Lakota in 1869. When gold was discovered in the Black Hills in 1874, the lands promised in the Fort Laramie Treaty to the Lakota were encroached upon by settlers. The government sent in General Custer to take the land, but the army forces were far out-numbered.He was a holy man as well and foresaw victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Defeating Custer in 1876, Sitting Bull and his followers migrated to Canada to escape the reservations being imposed on them. When buffalo became scarce, he traveled back to the U.S. in 1881 and was eventually placed on the Standing Rock reservation after being imprisoned for two years. Continued: http://dustyoldthing.com/sitting-bull-wild-west-show/
