Honoring legendary Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull", Hunkpapa Lakota Holy Man who was assassinated on this day 125 years ago by a Lakota "police man" at the behest of the United States agent's orders on the Standing Rock Reservation.
"On December 15th, 1890 at 5:30 AM roughly 40 Indian officers descended on Sitting Bull’s home with orders to arrest him. After a brief scuffle with the Indian officers, one of history’s greatest resisters of colonialism and staunch fighter for the traditional ways of the Lakota would lay dead." ~Matt Remle
"What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?....What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my people and my country?" ~Sitting Bull
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Sitting Bull’s speech at the Powder River Council, 1877
“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Every seed is awakened, and all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Yet hear me, friends! We have now to deal with another people, small and feeble when our forefathers first met with them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not! They have a religion in which the poor worship, but the rich will not! They even take tithes of the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule. They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. They compel her to produce out of season, and when sterile she is made to take medicine in order to produce again. All this is sacrilege.”
Read More About Sitting Bull from "Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains" by Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa)...http://iloveancestry.com/
"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children." ~Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull"
"As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist." Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull"
"They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse." Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull", Hunkpapa Lakota Holy Man (1831 – 1890)
"It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land." ~Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull"
"What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one." ~Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull"
"If we must die, we die defending our rights." Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull"
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— with Adrien Heckstall, Andres Silva,Wayne William Snellgrove and 45 others."On December 15th, 1890 at 5:30 AM roughly 40 Indian officers descended on Sitting Bull’s home with orders to arrest him. After a brief scuffle with the Indian officers, one of history’s greatest resisters of colonialism and staunch fighter for the traditional ways of the Lakota would lay dead." ~Matt Remle
"What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?....What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my people and my country?" ~Sitting Bull
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Sitting Bull’s speech at the Powder River Council, 1877
“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Every seed is awakened, and all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Yet hear me, friends! We have now to deal with another people, small and feeble when our forefathers first met with them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not! They have a religion in which the poor worship, but the rich will not! They even take tithes of the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule. They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. They compel her to produce out of season, and when sterile she is made to take medicine in order to produce again. All this is sacrilege.”
Read More About Sitting Bull from "Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains" by Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa)...http://iloveancestry.com/
"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children." ~Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull"
"As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist." Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull"
"They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse." Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull", Hunkpapa Lakota Holy Man (1831 – 1890)
"It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land." ~Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull"
"What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one." ~Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull"
"If we must die, we die defending our rights." Tatanka Iyotake "Sitting Bull"
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