The Story of Sitting Bull (Annotated) - Charles Alexander Eastman

The Story of Sitting Bull (Annotated) by Charles Alexander Eastman Originally published in 1918 in the author’s larger “Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 20 pages,

 describes the life of Sioux chief Sitting Bull, who led his people in a fight to retain their land, which resulted in the massacre of General Custer and his men at Little Bighorn.Includes supplemental material:•A Brief Profile of Sitting Bull•A Brief Profile of General Custer•About the Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand)Sample passage:It may be said without fear of contradiction that Sitting Bull never killed any women or children. He was a fair fighter, and while not prominent in battle after his young manhood, he was the brains of the Sioux resistance. He has been called a “medicine man” and a “dreamer.” Strictly speaking, he was neither of these, and the white historians are prone to confuse the two. A medicine man is a doctor or healer; a dreamer is an active war prophet who leads his war party according to his dream or prophecy. What is called by whites “making medicine” in wartime is again a wrong conception. Every warrior carries a bag of sacred or lucky charms, supposed to protect the wearer alone, but it has nothing to do with the success or safety of the party as a whole. No one can make any “medicine” to affect the result of a battle, although it has been said that Sitting Bull did this at the battle of the Little Bighorn.About the author:Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939), of both Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry but raised as a Woodland Sioux until the age of 15, was a doctor, writer, lecturer, and political activist. Other works include “Indian Boyhood,” “The Soul of the Indian,” and “From the Deep Woods to Civilization.”