[RERUN] EPISODE 55 Sitting Bull (Part 2)

History on Fire

Daniele Bolelli

Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 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.

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0:00.0	Whether you like history or not, if you care about bravery, wisdom, passion, larger than life characters,
0:06.0	and some of the most emotionally intense moments in human experience, you've come to the right place.
0:11.4	Danielle Bellelli is a university history professor, writer and martial artist,
0:16.4	and he shall be your guide and a journey to the place where history and epic collide.
0:47.3	Let's go say history on fire.
0:53.2	Hello and welcome to episode 55 of history on fire.
0:57.6	This is an episode that used to be pay-walled, but now I'm getting to release for free.
1:03.6	He's the second in a five-part series about the life of sitting bull, the ghost dance, and wounded knee.
1:10.8	If you have followed my work in the past, you know that I'm extra passionate about
1:16.4	Lakota history. This is where I enjoy all the topics I tackle, but this is really where I put
1:24.5	every last fiber of my being into crafting this episode. So I hope you dig it.
1:29.2	And while you are at it, if you can do me a favor and tell friends, family, anybody you know,
1:35.3	listen to podcasts to check out my work, that would be infinitely appreciated. Speaking of
1:42.1	infinitely appreciated, the way that history on fire finances itself, the main way I do that
1:50.1	is through Patreon. So if you feel in a generous mood for only five dollars a month, you get to have
1:57.0	access to a whole bunch of bonus episodes, early releases, and all sorts of other goodies.
2:03.5	These days we cost of living going up, five dollars a month is pretty much what you throw at a
2:09.6	waiter you don't like if you go out eating once a month. So it's not crazy money, but it is more
2:17.4	than enough that if enough people do it, it keeps history on fire going, it keeps me going, and you
2:24.0	live my infinite thanks. And in that regard there are a few folks who have contributed a lot more
2:31.3	than the minimum entry level. So I want to give a shout out to Marc Chang, Chimimoxam,
2:37.4	Azusa, Enteria, Jonathan, Talveson, and Charzacor. So thank you, thank you, thank you for
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