Show When A a iti 1 Died i I Ill Ill U I p pf l d dt t I ff r r I f iff f da y z m r d 1 rf i f. f t ti Jt t i J 1 t r Sa of rA 2714 F I I II 7 V VI k I T r y I I I I 1 o oI r s j I LLa I 11 r ro o I I ii r. r t t T 1930 4 Na Br 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON T WAS just 40 years a ago o that Sit Sitting It ting ling Bull Rail came to the end of his trail troll of Implacable hostility to the white man and the fortieth anniversary anniversary anni annl- L of ot his death hinds a 0 while white whiteman man engaged In writing the biography blog raphy of this famous red man From rom the company comes the announcement that the recent award of ot one line of the Guggenheim fellowships fellow fellow- ships to Stanley Vestal already well known asa as asa a n biographer of Kit Carson will enable him to devote himself exclusively to work on his forth forthcoming coming volume on Oil the life of Sitting null Hull of ot the Sioux Sitting Bull null was killed near his home on the Grand GraDd river In North Dakota December 15 n By the same Ironical fate which overtook two other outstanding or or r Indian patriots pa as many ninny people choose to regard them them them- King Philip of ot the and Pontiac of ot the Sitting lull Bull met his hll death at the bands hands of ot men Dlen of his own rare race Today out on the Standing Rock flock reservation lives an year old old Indian who was visited I sited by Marshal Foch and aDd Queen Marie of Rumania during their tours of ot this country In recent years and n who ho a few tew months back was received at nt the White House by President Hoover Red net Tomahawk Toma Toina hawk Is II his name and although he Is worthy enough of honor us al a B brave bro warrior In the old days of Intertribal warfare and aDd as 01 an Indian policeman policeman po po- who ho was often otten called upon for fur dut duty filled with hardship and danger he has hUI been widely advertised and Is II best known to the white man manof manof of ot today todDy for tor the doubtful distinction of being the slayer of Sitting Silting Hull Dull Sitting Hull Bull died there were those hose who hailed the event ent as 01 the end of an era For or popular pupa lar lor Imagination had Ial fastened Ux upon n this tribal leader lend lead er of the Sioux as nil a n symbol of the threat which bad hod hung over O the American pioneer t for r generations genera and In n a larger sense as os the symbol of anever an ever present ever present danger to white supremacy on this continent So his death was Iou looked keel u upton nn as removing removing re rl moving the last obstacle to satisfying the land hunger which had driven the white while man mun westward west west- ward ard ever er since Ince the earliest days of settlement on the Atlantic seaboard As AI a n matter of ot fact It was nothing of ot the sort The Issue of white vs red supremacy had been settled long Ion before In Its larger Implications Sitting Hulls Bails death was an echo of a fight that had already been won Historically tile His It was teas an anti antl ending to the career of ot an Individualist fighting a lost cause Ethically It was the murder of a caged raged eagle Estimates of ot Sitting nulls hulls character and Importance Importance importance Im Im- Rr vary He lie has been heen called railed a physical coward and andI a I brave brae warrior He tie has been designate designated nate as a great leader and a n seeing far native e statesman anti he be has been denounced as ns an nn impractical Impractical Impractical Im Im- practical schemer a I faker and a fraud Hut But there Is one thing about him upon which both bolh friend and enemy IIII he agree he ne l never r deviated from his hla distrust of ot and his dislike for the lie white man There was ample evidence l' of that thai hostility during dur duro In Inc ing the aura nurs with the Sioux In the j and sixties six six- ties culminating In the defeat ot of Gen George Geore A A. A Custer and the annihilation of a II purl part of ot his com corn mand the Seventh cavalry at the battle of ot the tie Big Horn In 10 Montana on June JUlie 2 Ti 1870 Sitting Bulls Bull's part In that tragic affair has hus been a subject for touch much dispute but popular opinion made him the archenemy enemy even though the actual lenders leaders of ot the Indian fighting men thai tint day were Gall Call of the Cru Crazy y Horse of ot the and Two Moons of the According to the popular Idea Ideo he ran lI a away at the first attack was tins making milkIng medicine In the hills during the battle and returned later Inter to 10 cluing claim credit for tor It But there Is evidence from the Sioux that thai he helped repel the Reno Heno attack even fn though he wits was not present when usters Immediate command was overwhelmed Whatever had been Sitting Bulls Bull's role at the Little Big Horn Jorn hIs prestige e among the Sioux seems to have been enhanced bY bv the lie outcome of the luster Iuster battle but hut It II was n diminished l by the vigorous caln campaigning of fit Gen Nelson A. A Miles who defeated of the hostiles and finally drove Sitting Bull null and hit his toll followers ower across the lx urdel Into Canada There he remained until when hI he surrendered at Fort Buford under antler promise of amnesty a promIse promise prom prom- ise which was I Immediately III 10 Id I'd III I 11 via violated when he was I confined as 81 a prisoner of war at Fort Randall Rondoll Finally with his band of fit la he was Vall settled set tied near neur the Grand rh river r on the this Standing Rock k reservation At this time there was wa relit great unrest und die satisfaction amon among the Sioux Penned up on un small reservations these people who had once roamed over a 8 veritable empire suffered Buffered from short ra rations tuns doled out flUt to theta them hy by their conquerors and anda a growing sense of ot the IP Indignities to which they IhlY bad bod been ePu subjected At this Ibis crisis there appeared a half breed Indian ui In Nevada proclaiming a new order of fit things for the red man hum A Messiah was I com coming hi to overthrow tilt the white man lUan and return to the red man all 1111 that thai hillS hail once ome been heen tits his In preparation pre for tor this curving of their savior the Indians were Ieri l to certain ceremonials chief 1111 the Ghost dunce Whether ther Sitting Silting Dull Bull was 1111 n a genuine believe In the Ghost Dunce Dance or saw In espousing ing It a 11 chance lIIne to regain some of Dl III his lost prestige uniting among hi his hili I 1 people I It unit snit an un opportunity for rallying the Sioux In another effort to resist the whites whiles Is to say liar Hut But It ti was Sll probably the latter laller The result so sr far us nv 1 lie hI mix concerned was to focus the growing and alarm of ot the government go upon ti rm him I p HM after Sitting Bull at ut a Ghost dunce dunes In his hi cant broke the peace pipe which be lie hind had kept hI sacredly since his surrender at nt I Fort ort Buford rd Maying that be Ill was ready rendy to die for this chits new neww ner r religion if It re need be Upon hearing bearing of ot this James McLaughlin agent on the Standing Hoek tick reservation recommended mended d to the Indian department putt Sitting Hull Bull be e arrested and t remo removed rt from frum the r reservation ef Ho Ile renewed the recommendation after a personal visit U to Sitting Bulls Bull's camp convinced ron him that the latter was v determined to stir up trouble and perhaps precipitate an outbreak Rut But the agents agent's recommendations were disregarded e b by the acting Indian Indan commissioner and on December 1 12 the War department Instructed Col Cot R n R. R C C. Drum Orum commanding command lug ing officer at Fort Yale Yate to make mae the arrest call call- Ing lug upon uon Mclaughlin for such operation cooperatIon and assistance as would be needed conferred with Drum and found him fully tully In agreement as to the course of ot dure It II was to tl make mike the arrest on 10 the next ration ration ra ra- tion day 8 December 20 0 and the Indian police were to do It with the soldiers from Fort ForI Yates Tales at a convenient distance to aid In case Sitting hulls Bulls followers attempted a rescue However er on December December De De- cember 14 It was discovered erld that Sitting Bull wa was s preparing to leave lea the reservation bind and Join a large group of Indians who hind had stampeded from the Pine fine Ridge reservation reFer Into 1010 the Bad Bud Lands Land s upon the approach of troops nt at Pine Ridge S So McLaughlin and Drum decided to act Immediately Thirty nine regular policemen and four specials commanded by Lieutenant Bull full Head Mead and Ser Sergeant Shave Shu lead Head and Red Hed Tomahawk were ordered t to o proceed to Sitting Bulls Bull's camp that hint night an and d od make the arrest early the next morning Just after dawn the police reached Sitting Bulls Bull s camp and halted before the Ihl two IWo houses In which whit h sh lived the lender leader his two 11 wives an und d his hll sons Ions and daughters Ten policemen headed b by Bull ileac Head and Shave Shove lead Head entered one o othe of ot f the bouses houses and found there Sill Sitting In Bull null hits hIs wives and his year seventeen son son row Crow Foot oot null fug BullHead I Mend Head told Sitting Bull Built that thaI he was under arrest acres and must go to the agency to which the chief made mad e DO no objection Stories of what hut happened next there do no not t agree In nil respects According to the account o of t Dr Or Charles A A. A nn an educated Sioux and a an n authoritative writer on the history of ot e Sitting pull Bull finding himself surrounded hy by y armed d men and himself led heal 11 1 away to he p knew not what fate Cried out loudly They on nave nave 11 la taken ken me what t tsay say you ou to It The rule INdice harangued th the Ihl e crowd In vain Sitting Bull blued bluml was WUI up and h hagain he e again appealed to his men Ills adopted brother the captive whose life hifa he be had saver saved so many years before was Willi the first to fire Ills s shot killed Lieutenant null Bull Head who hI hold held Kitting null full by the I arm ann rill Then there wa was wan n II short hort hut but t sharp conflict In which Sluing Sitting Bull null and anal six of ht his I defenders and six of nt the Indian poll police 11 were si sl sin nil a with wIlh many more wounded The chiefs chief's young elm son Crow Cro Foot and his devoted died wit with h him Major McLaughlin In his hook book My Friend th the e Indian published several years ago by the Houghton Hough Hough- loughton ton Mifflin company tells the story thus Ihus As Sit ting null Bull stepped out with hl his he lie walked d directly toward the horse with the evident lion tion of mounting and ond accompanying the police lie He was some distance Irma from the II door when his so son n Crow Grow ont Foot seeing that the old man mun Intended t to tomake u make makl no resistance began to revile re him You gnu call 1 yourself II a brave e man main und and you yon 1111 hn e declared the that f you ou would never ne surrender to n u and nn now w you OU give yourself up ul m to Indians In blue uniforms uniform e The taunt hit hll Sitting hull Bull hard He lie looked Inoke d Into the mass muss of ut dark excited ricers faces und and commenced tom tam mended ed to 10 talk volubly and shrilly and there wa waa was s a menacing movement mO III In the crowd I Ill He is looked about him and nud situ saw his bis faithful ar ad nIl t shout about one hundred and sixty crazed craze t Ghost who Dancers who who would have ha gone through fir fire e at his bidding lie He made up his mind t to 10 0 take hIs bis chance and screamed out in order t to o his pe p to attack the police Instantly Catch Catch- ate the pie Hear Benr and und Strikes the Strikes Kettle who ere were In th the e front rink rank of the he crowd nr fired 1 at point blank range rang p. p the Catch mortally wounding First n ant lint Bull lead Head and Strikes the Kettle First Sergeant Shave Rha plead Head In the abdomen g I. I Bull lend Head was Willi a few yards to the Hie let left and front t of ot Sitting Hull full when lilt hit hIt und and Immediately wheel log ing he tie shot Sitting Bull fall through the body Idy an al at he same Instant Second Sergeant Tote t hn k who win with re Oh revolver r In hand was rear guard shot him In to the right cheek killing him Instantly the lieutenant the first sergeant an and Sitting fug Bull BUli t fulling falling together C g b by N VIOR |