Other hunting bands later flocked to his banner, and by the mid-1870s his group also included several Cheyenne and Arapaho.
Sitting Bull was elevated to his new rank sometime around 1869. Army, Sitting Bull’s uncle Four Horns eventually spearheaded a campaign to make the war chief the supreme leader of all the autonomous bands of Lakota Sioux-a position that had never before existed. Knowing that the Indians required unity to face down the might of the U.S. His resistance usually took the form of raids on livestock and hit-and-run attacks against military outposts, including several against Fort Buford in North Dakota. In the 1860s, Sitting Bull emerged as one of the fiercest opponents of white encroachment on Sioux land. He was the first man to become chief of the entire Lakota Sioux nation. His nephew White Bull would later call the act of defiance “the bravest deed possible.” 3. Upon finishing his pipe, Siting Bull carefully cleaned it and then walked off, still seemingly oblivious to the gunfire around him. Inviting several others to join him, he proceeded to have a long, leisurely smoke from his tobacco pipe, all the while ignoring the hail of bullets whizzing by his head. As a symbol of his contempt for the soldiers, the middle-aged chief strolled out into the open and took a seat in front of their lines. Army during a campaign to block construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The most stunning display of his courage came in 1872, when the Sioux clashed with the U.S.
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