EPISODE 55 Sitting Bull (Part 2)

History on Fire

Daniele Bolelli

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2019

⏱️ 109 minutes

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“I don’t want to have anything to do with people who make one carry water on the shoulders and haul manure. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hardtack, and a little sugar and coffee. The whites may get me at last, but I will have good times till then.” Sitting Bull “Let me live deep while I live.” Robert E. Howard “Were I to run away from the enemy, no one will consider me a man.” Kit Fox warrior society song “A warrior I have been. Now it is all over. A hard time I have.” Sitting Bull song In historical terms, it was just a blink of an eye ago. In the mid-1800s, the Great Plains in the United States were still firmly in the hands of nomadic, buffalo hunting tribes. The looming threat of American expansion was still barely noticeable. But things changed quickly, and soon the tribes were locked in an existential struggle with the U.S. for control of the heartland of North America. One man rose among these tribes to lead his people to resisting the inevitable for over two decades. By the time he was 10 years old, the boy who would become the Lakota leader Sitting Bull, had killed his first bison by running him down and putting an arrow through its heart. In the opinion of his fellow tribesmen, his ability as a hunter and as a warrior was only second to his generosity in taking care of widows and orphans. In this second episode of this series, we’ll see Sitting Bull emerging as the main leader for the free Lakota, fighting in a brutal intertribal battle, challenging the expansion of the Northern Pacific Railroad, saving the Cheyenne from starvation, Sun Dancing and having premonitory visions of the Little Big Horn battle, leading his people to Canada, befriending a major for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, helping Nez Perce’ refugees across the border, fighting in a duel at 49 years of age, returning to the U.S. as a POW, and much, much more. If you feel generous and enjoy History on Fire, please consider joining my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/historyonfire to access plenty of bonus content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whether you like history or not, if you care about bravery, wisdom, passion, larger than life
0:05.4	characters and some of the most emotionally intense moments and human experience, you have
0:10.3	come to the right place.
0:12.1	Danieli Bilelli is a university history professor, writer, and martial artist,
0:16.5	and he shall be your guide and a journey to the place where history and epic collide. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Let's go say history on fire.
0:57.0	Hello and welcome to episode 55 of history on fire. This is an episode that used to be Paywalled, but now I'm getting to release for free. He's the second in a five-part series about the life of
1:07.3	Citibule, the ghost dance and the wounded knee. If you have followed my work in the past you know that I'm
1:14.9	extra passionate about Lakota history. This is where I mean I enjoy all the topics I
1:20.9	tackle but this is really where I put every last fiber of my being into
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