Comments on: Sitting Bull . 1831 – December 15, 1890

By: Taz

Taz — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:30:14 +0000

Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race â?? small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

–Chief Sitting Bull, speaking at the Powder River Conference in 1877

By: Mark P

Mark P — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:35:35 +0000

Read, or reread “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”. It makes you ashamed to be an American of European descent.

By: gwen

gwen — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:28:03 +0000

There are Native Americans living in the most destitute poverty, on the most unproductive lands in our country. As late as the 1970s men used to go to the reservation to rape NA girls with impunity. A white person who killed a NA in the Dakotas could count on getting off without punishment. Yet, I hear these same people bragging that they have some minuscule amount of NA ancestry. Even the RC church placed the most intransigent pedophiles on reservations where they could rape generations without fear of punishment.

By: 24fps

24fps — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:06:26 +0000

Sitting Bull and his people attempted to come to Canada. They were allowed to at first — Sitting Bull developed a trusting relationship with the NWMP’s Major Walsh, but they were eventually starved out and returned to the US. It’s one of many betrayals we Canadians perpetrated on the First People of this land.

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10174

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:32:28 +0000

He was a powerful Shaman. He can do that!

By: Doug Alder

Doug Alder — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:22:59 +0000

Ha you caught the typo 🙂 I came here to say really he was 149yrs old when he died 🙂