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Speaker 1: Hey, history fans, here's a rerun for today, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Tracy V. Wilson. Welcome to this Day in

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Speaker 1: History Class from how Stuff Works dot com and from

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Speaker 1: the desk of Stuff you Missed in History Class. It's

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Speaker 1: the show where we explore the past one day at

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Speaker 1: a time with a quick look at what happened today

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Speaker 1: in history. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Christopher

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Speaker 1: haciotis your host, filling in this week for Tracy V. Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Today is December and Sitting Bowl was killed on this

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Speaker 1: day in Born around eight thirty one, Sitting Bowl was

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Speaker 1: a member of the hunk Papa community. Now that's one

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Speaker 1: of seven distinct Native American groups that make up the

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Speaker 1: Lakota Tribe. Family history says that Sitting Bowl was born

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Speaker 1: in the Dakota Territory in what's today's southeastern Montana, though

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Speaker 1: you'll also find a lot of references to him being

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Speaker 1: born in with South Dakota. At the time, though he

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Speaker 1: wasn't known as Sitting Bowl, his childhood name was Jumping Badger,

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Speaker 1: but after an active bravery a raid on a crow

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Speaker 1: camp when he was fourteen years old, Jumping Badger received

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Speaker 1: the name tatanka Iyotake, or Sitting Bowl. Over the next

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Speaker 1: several decades, Sitting Bowl, who became a leader, and his

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Speaker 1: people had contact with the white people traveling westward, but

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Speaker 1: as the Lakota lands are further north than most transcontinental routes,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't as constant as with other tribes. But the

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Speaker 1: Hunk Papa and Lakota couldn't avoid the increasing tension between

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Speaker 1: Native Americans and the invading forces of the United States,

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Speaker 1: both military and civilian. By this time, Sitting Bull had

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Speaker 1: become a political, military, and spiritual leader of his people.

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Speaker 1: Over the years, he grew cognizant of the reality of

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Speaker 1: the invasion and conquest. He learned of conditions and reservations

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Speaker 1: from other tribal leaders, for instance, and he continually warned

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Speaker 1: his followers that were there people to survive as free Indians,

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Speaker 1: their fates would be intrinsically tied to that of the

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Speaker 1: bison that populated North America, and those bison were such

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Speaker 1: a valuable resource to many Native people. The Sitting Bowl

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Speaker 1: led guerilla attacks over the years and was involved in

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Speaker 1: a number of notable conflicts, from the Attle of Killed

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Speaker 1: Deer Mountain to Red Clouds War and from the Great

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Speaker 1: Sioux War to the Battle of Little Big Horn. Now

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Speaker 1: that famed battle is when Custer's seventh Cavalry attacked Cheyenne

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Speaker 1: and Lakota encampments near the Little Big Horn River, which

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Speaker 1: to the Lakota was known as the Greasy Grass River.

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Speaker 1: But more than two thousand warriors were following Sitting Bull

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Speaker 1: at that point, and they overwhelmed the attackers and successfully

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Speaker 1: defended themselves. The U. S public reacted with shock at

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Speaker 1: Custer's defeat, considering it a massacre, and thousands of soldiers

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Speaker 1: were sent to fight the Lakota tribes. Sitting Bull eventually

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Speaker 1: surrendered six years later on July, and over the last

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Speaker 1: decade of his life he served time as a prisoner

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Speaker 1: of war and was eventually housed at the Standing Rock

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Speaker 1: Reservation in South Dakota. He was allowed to leave to

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Speaker 1: tour with Buffalo Bill Cody's Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

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Speaker 1: Sitting Bull met and befriended Annie Oakley. He posed for pictures,

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Speaker 1: he signed autographs, and the money that he raised doing

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Speaker 1: that he is said to have often given away to

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Speaker 1: beggars and homeless people he encountered. He also became involved

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Speaker 1: the ghost Dance spiritual movement, and this became pivotal in

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Speaker 1: what ended up becoming Sitting Bull's end. After returning to

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Speaker 1: Standing Rock, he eventually died on December and what happened

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Speaker 1: is a government representative named James McLaughlin was afraid that

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Speaker 1: Sitting Bowl was planning to leave the reservation with the

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Speaker 1: ghost dancers and ordered him arrested by reservation police. Around

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Speaker 1: five thirty am on December fifteen, a number of police officers,

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Speaker 1: led by Lieutenant Henry Bullhead and four volunteers surrounded Sitting

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Speaker 1: Bull's house and tried to arrest him. Sitting Bull and

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Speaker 1: his wife delayed the arrest as his followers gathered, and

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Speaker 1: when police ordered Sitting Bull atop a horse, he resisted

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Speaker 1: and the police responded with force. A Lakota warrior named

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Speaker 1: Catched the Bear, fired a rifle at Lieutenant Bullhead, who

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Speaker 1: then fired his pistol at Sitting Bowl. Another policeman fired

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Speaker 1: at Sitting Bull as well. The Lacoda leader was struck

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Speaker 1: in the chest and head and died soon thereafter, a

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Speaker 1: fight broke out and in total sixteen people died, eight policemen,

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Speaker 1: eight tribesmen. Sitting Bull's body was taken to fort Yates

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Speaker 1: and buried nearby, but in ninety three family members exhumed

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Speaker 1: what they believed to be his remains and buried them

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Speaker 1: near what then was believed to be his birthplace in

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Speaker 1: South Dakota. A number of monuments to Sitting Bull now

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Speaker 1: exists across the United States. Thanks to Casey Pegrum and

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