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Show I : U MUCH MALIGNED MAN j WAS OLD "SITTING BULL" Popular history has written down : Sitting Bull, the great Sioux Indian ! medicine man, as a bloodthirsty and i trouble-making old scamp who should j have been killed long before he was. i But, as is often the case, popular ; history is full of error and the final verdict on Sitting Bull, which '' yet remains re-mains to be written, may be a very different one. American Indian day, which is being be-ing observed in many states on September Sep-tember 23, has a special interest this year, because of the announcement that Sitting Bull is to be the subject of a contest conducted by a South Dakota poetry magazine. This contest con-test is the basis of a feature article. "Totanka Yotanka," by Elmo Scott Watson, in this issue of The- News. If you would know the truth about I Sitting Bull, as nearly as it can now be stated, be sure to read this arti-j arti-j cle. |