government including Lieutenant General William Tecumseh Sherman.
In 1868, Red Cloud, or Mahpiua Luta (1822-1909), chief of the Oglala Teton Dakota Sioux, signed the Fort Laramie Treaty with 24 other tribal leaders and representatives of the U.S. These face-offs convinced Sitting Bull to never sign a treaty that would force his people onto a reservation. forces under General Alfred Sully surrounded an Indian trading village, eventually forcing the Sioux to retreat.
military again at the Battle of Killdeer Mountain on July 28, 1864, when U.S. Over 300 Sioux were arrested in the Minnesota Uprising, but President Abraham Lincoln commuted the sentences of all but 39 of the accused. Army in June of 1863, when they came after the Santee Sioux (not the Dakota) in retaliation for the Minnesota Uprising, sparked when federal agents withheld food from the Sioux living on reservations along the Minnesota River. He led the expansion of Sioux hunting grounds into westward territories previously inhabited by the Assiniboine, Crow and Shoshone, among others. Sitting Bull soon joined the Strong Heart warrior society and the Silent Eaters, a group that ensured the welfare of the tribe.
After the raid, his father renamed him Tatanka Yotanka, or Sitting Bull, for his bravery. The young boy killed his first buffalo at age 10 and by 14, joined his father and uncle on a raid of a Crow camp. He was the son of Returns-Again, a renowned Sioux warrior who named his son “Jumping Badger” at birth. Sitting Bull was born in 1831 near Grand River, Dakota Territory in what is today South Dakota.
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