Show SITTING FITTING bulgis ENMITY TO THE WHITES A LETTER in the cill clil cincinnati oln oin clu nati naki aa ofa zetta tells the following story sitting bull and the origin of his enmity to the whites which story however may be apocryphal he is a sioux or dakota indian for several years he lived at fort rice on the missouri river and was known as a blanket indian this is a term of scorn or derision among the indians and is applied to indians who hang around the military posts and wear the white mans mana blanket instead of the indiana indians botalo robe for you must niwat know that the robe is the indians badge of manhood one day for what reason is not known a soldier struck sitting bitting bull a blow blon that was the tho blow in whose train has followed a long 11 list ast of heroic deeds and which has shaped the indian policy of the united states and to which the death of custer and his command may be immediately traced the blow aroused the spirit of a great soul which until then had lain dormant lle 1 ho ao at once flew to the desert where he organized a band from tho the disaffected of all tribes anamaye and made unrelenting war on the whites and from flom that period about ten teru years ago to this he has been the terro terror rot of theroun the country 1 from the falls of missouri to fort randall bandall and from the tho borders of montana to devica lake |