Sitting Bull

http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/sitting-bull
- Gives basic information about Sitting Bull
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sittingbull.htm
- Goes into futher detail about aitting bull
https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/247874?terms=Sitting+Bull&sType=multi

Sitting Bull was one of the most recognized Native American Chiefs.He had amazing skill and leading abilities. He united various Plains Indians, led the Great Sioux War of 1876, and led the defeat of Colonel George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. After fighting Custer all of the Native Americans split up causing may of the other Chiefs to surrender. Sitting Bull remained challenging and led his tribe across the Canadian border beyond where the US government could get him. After four years he could no longer feed his people(because where they were Buffalo was almost extinct), so he was forced to surrender. When he talked with the government officials he asked to be able to go back and forth between the US and Canada and to have a reservation of his own. The officials sent him to Standing Rock Reservation, where he and his tribe were held as prisoners of war for two years. 

USH Classwork 11/9/16

Savage- not domesticated or under human control
Savagery - a cruel or violent quality 

online history textbook passage from 1887

If I were an american student reading this it would have shaped my views on native americans because the book claims that native americans were savages who would kill any english man. The majority of the time when they are talking about native americans in this book they are talking about subduing them or conquering them. When in reality it most likely should have been the other way around considering that they were on the land first and then english settlers came and moved them and took their land for their own profit. This would shape how I view native american by showing me early in life that englishmen were "better" that Native americans.