Sitting Bull | Timeline

Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake) also nicknamed "Húŋkešni" or "Slow") was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance to United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement. (Intro from Wikipedia)

January(?) 1(?), 1831 - Grand River, Dakota Territory - Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake (Sitting Bull) is born
January(?) 1(?), 1841 - Dakota Territory - Kills his first buffalo at the age of 10
January(?) 1(?), 1845 - Dakota Territory - 14-year-old Sitting Bull joins a Lakota raiding party to take horses from a camp of Crow warriors. After the action, he is conferred his name in a ceremony. His father presents him "with an eagle feather to wear in his hair, a warrior's horse, and a hardened buffalo hide shield to mark his son's passage into manhood as a Lakota warrior." (wikipedia)
August 17, 1862 - (While in North Dakota?) - The Dakota War of 1862 begins. Sitting Bull does not take part =(START)
December 26, 1862 - (While in North Dakota?) - The Dakota War of 1862 ends - US victory
July 28, 1864 - Dunn County, North Dakota - Battle of Killdear Mountain - US victory. A large Lakota/Dakota/Santee camp is destroyed. Indians left behind (including children) are killed by Winnebago scouts
August 7, 1864 - Badlands (near Medora, North Dakota) - Battle of Badlands (until August 9th) - US victory
September 1(?), 1864 - North Dakota - Sitting Bull and about 100 lakotas attack a small party left behind to effect some repairs to an overturned wagon. He is shot in the left hip by a soldier - but the wound is not serious
June 17, 1866 - Fort Buford, North Dakota - Sitting Bull attacks Fort Buford, established two days earlier
August 4, 1873 - Tongue River, Montana - Skirmishes against George Armstrong Custer
June 5, 1876 - Rosebud Creek, Montana - During a "Sun Dance", Sitting Bull has a vision of "soldiers falling into his camp like grasshoppers from the sky"
June 25, 1876 - Little Bighorn, Montana - Battle of Little Bighorn - Indian victory against Custer
June 27, 1876 - Little Bighorn, Montana - As General Terry approaches from the north, the large indian encampment brakes up into smaller groups because there wasn't enough game and grass to sustain a large congregation of people and horses. The indians leave the area
May 1(?), 1877 - near Marmarth, North Dakota - Sitting Bull leads his band north to Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan (then Northwest Territory)
July 19, 1881 - Fort Buford, North Dakota - Sitting Bull and 186 of his followers surrender to the United States at Fort Buford, North Dakota
August 26, 1881 - Fort Yates, North Dakota - Sitting Bull is visited by census taker William T. Selwyn
September(?) 1(?), 1881 - Fort Randall, South Dakota - Sitting Bull is transfered to Fort Randall (near Pickstown) as a prisoner of war
May 1(?), 1883 - Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Grand River, South Dakota - After 20 months in Fort Randall, Sitting Bull and his group are allowed to return to Standing Rock Agency

Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill, 1885

March 19, 1884 - St.Paul, Minnesota - Sitting Bull goes to the Olympic Theatre to see the Arlington and Fields Combination. In the end, Annie Oakley bounds on stage and snuffs a burning candle with a bullet from her rifle. He asks to see her after the show. Annie gives him a signed picture of herself; Sitting Bull gave her the moccasins he had worn at Little Bighorn and the nickname “Watanya Cicilla,” Little Sure Shot
June 6, 1885 - Sitting Bull signs a 4-month contract, demanding $50 a week, a bonus of $125 and the sole right to sell his photographs and autographs
August 1(?), 1885 - Ottawa | Hamilton | Kingston, Ontario - Buffalo Bill's Wild West performances in Ontario, Canada
August 9, 1885 - Montreal, Quebec - Buffalo Bill's Wild West performances (August 9th to 17th)
August 24, 1885 - Toronto, Ontario - Buffalo Bill's Wild West performance
November 24, 1890 - (while in Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Grand River, South Dakota) - Buffalo Bill debarks at New York harbor. Receives a telegram from General Nelson A.Miles, commander of the US troops in South Dakota, asking him to proceed immediatly to Standing Rock indian reservation in Dakota Territory where a tense situation was unfolding. Miles authorizes Buffalo Bill to "secure" his friend Sitting Bull
November 27, 1890 - (while in Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Grand River, South Dakota) - Buffalo Bill reaches Mandan, North Dakota by train
November 28, 1890 - (while in Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Grand River, South Dakota) - Major McLaughlin, the agent in charge of Standing Rock, manages to make Buffalo Bill's meeting with Sitting Bull impossible. First he leaves some bottles of liquor for a tired Buffalo Bill to easily get drunk. During another day of rest, McLaughlin disinforms him about Sitting Bull's whereabouts. When Buffalo Bill is about to go to the Standing Rock indian reservation, he receives news that President Benjamin Harrison had rescinded Gereral Mile's order for him to bring in Sitting Bull
December 15, 1890 - Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Grand River, South Dakota - Sitting Bull is killed during arrest, aged 58/59 =(END)

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