(Tatanka Yotanka; in English, Sitting Bull; Grand River., 1834 - Fort Yates, id., 1890) Hunkpapa Lakota leader. As a young man he was part of the akicita (secret society) Brave Hearts, and gained fame for his deeds, which made him one of the most important Lakota leaders, strong defender of the ancient customs during the struggle of his people against American colonialism.
Sitting Bull formed cross-tribal alliances in his efforts to resist the process of colonization. Sitting Bull also steadfastly refused to become dependent on aid from the U.S. government.
On June 25th, 1876, Colonel Custer and his forces were wiped out at the battle of Little Big Horn. Sitting Bull did not take part in the battle, but acted as a kind of spiritual leader to those who did, performing the Sun Dance, in which he fasted and sacrificed over 100 pieces of flesh from his arms, a week prior.
In response, the U.S. government sent thousands more soldiers to the area, forcing many of the Lakota to surrender over the next year. Sitting Bull refused to surrender, and in May 1877, he led his band north to Wood Mountain, North-West Territories (now Saskatchewan). He remained there until 1881, when he and most of his band returned to U.S. territory and surrendered to U.S. forces.
In 1890, due to fears that Sitting Bull would use his influence to support the Ghost Dance movement (a movement of indigenous resistance), Indian Service agent James McLaughlin ordered his arrest. Early in the morning of December 15th, 39 police officers and four volunteers approached Sitting Bull's house. The camp awakened and men began to converge at the scene.
When Sitting Bull refused to comply, the police used force on him, enraging members of the village. Catch-the-Bear, a Lakota, shouldered his rifle and shot one of the Indian agents, who reacted by firing his revolver into the chest of Sitting Bull, killing him.
In 1953, his Lakota family exhumed what were believed to be his remains, reburying them near Mobridge, South Dakota, near his birthplace.
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I've been growing more doomeristic by the day:
We live in a nihilistic world run by nihilists. Sure, the people in charge might give some spiel about 'Jesus' but their 'Jesus' is nihilistic as well. Look at the environment, hordes of boomers saying "Well I'll be dead before anything bad happens". So in other words "YOLO" is a perfectly valid reason to cause a mass extinction event.
The current cost of living crisis. To elaborate further on the whole nihilism of everything, we have an entire generation that was sabotaged by corporate greed with nonexistent pay and extremely high rent that cannot be questioned in polite society. It's seen as their god given right to make society worse with their gluttonous hedonism because of private property's sacred role. Your personal property is not as well-respected mind you, or even your personal details. You have a responsibility to share that with porky...for free of course. They'll even betray their own free-market principles to weaponize certain regulations to make sure housing is never built so that way their investment properties can surge in value while other people do the hard work of making the community more valuable in the first place. Even lesser capitalists get screwed over here.
I can go on forever but I'll just leave it at this.
They all think they're going to get away with it...
Do not let your anger be turned into despair. Agitate! Make everyone around you angry at the capitalists. Make them know where their suffering (and yours) comes from.