Sitting Bull

By: Celia Sprong

Contents

• Who • What • Where • When • Why

Who was Sitting Bull?

• He was a Native American • He was a wonderful medicine man • He was the hunkpapa tribe leader

What did Sitting Bull do?

• He supported the Ghost Dance and was arrested for it.

• He led many tribes against Fort Bethold, Fort Buford and Fort Stevenson

• He performed at Buffalo Bill Cody’s wild west show were he earned $50 every performance

Where did it take place?

• He was born in Grand River Dakota • He supported the Ghost Dance in Standing

Rock Indian Reservation

When did it take place?

• He performed in 1885• He was born in 1831• He died in 1890• He surrendered to the U.S. forces in 1881• He attacked the forts in the 1850’s

Why did Sitting Bull do it?

• He supported the Ghost Dance because it was native to all Indians

• He performed for the money• He attacked the forts because they were rood

to his tribe