Life of Sitting Bull: And History of the Indian War of 1890-91
, by JOHNSON W. FLETCHER
- ISBN: 9781582181974 | 1582181977
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/1/2000
A historic account of the life and death of the great medicine man and chief, Sitting Bull, this book tells not only the story of a single leader, but of the entire Sioux Nation and also of the Indian War of 1890-91. Known as the greatest of all the Indians, the Sioux were the bravest in war, the wisest in peace, the most powerful in body, and the most advanced in mind.
| Autobiography | p. 19 |
| A Unique History in Pictures | |
| The Chief's Own Story of His Bloody and Lawless Career | |
| Killing Enemies and Stealing Mules | |
| Many Different Stories of His Life | |
| Was He a West Point Graduate? | |
| Startling Theory of an Army Officer | |
| Medicine man and Warrior | p. 39 |
| The True Story of Sitting Bull's Life | |
| Son of a Rich Chief | |
| A Buffalo Hunter at Ten Years Old | |
| His Three Wives and Nine Children, Including Twins | |
| How He Gained Supreme Sway Among the Sioux | |
| What it is to be a Medicine Man | |
| The Savage in Society | p. 49 |
| His Visit to a Camp at Fargo | |
| Ashamed of His Primitive Garb | |
| His First Suit of White Man's Clothes | |
| A Discomfited Young Clergyman | |
| The Indian at Dinner | |
| His First Look in a Mirror | |
| Autograph Selling | |
| The for of the White Man | p. 60 |
| Fort Buford's Ghastly Tragedy | |
| An Accomplished Cattle Thief | |
| Contempt for Pale Faces | |
| Opposing Invasion of His Territory | |
| The Fort Ellis Episode | |
| A Pen-and-Ink Sketch of the Savage Chief | |
| The Little Big Horn | p. 66 |
| Sitting Bull at the Height of His Power | |
| The Rush for the Black Hills | |
| Ineffectual Negotiations | |
| Sitting Bull's Defiant Answer to a Summons | |
| Preparations for a Great Struggle | |
| How the Three Divisions of the Army Marched into the Indians' Country | |
| Custer's Last Rally | p. 84 |
| Departure of the Cavalry | |
| March of the Infantry | |
| First News of the Disaster | |
| The Rescue | |
| Story of the Battle | |
| Reno's Force Rescued Twice | |
| How Custer Fought to the End | |
| The Death of Custer | p. 103 |
| Two Stories of the Grim Tragedy | |
| General Terry's Official Report | |
| The Desperate March to the Relief of Reno | |
| Narrative of Old Nick Genneiss | |
| A Picture Record by Little Big Man | |
| Custer | p. 116 |
| The Beau Sabreur of the Army | |
| Brilliant Services as a Cavalry Officer in Many Battles During the Rebellion | |
| The Comrade of Phil. Kearney and Phil. Sheridan | |
| His Work as an Indian Fighter | |
| A Soldier Who Never Knew What Fear Was, and Who Never Lost a Gun or a Color Until His Last Battle | |
| In Exile | p. 137 |
| Unfounded Rumors of Sitting Bull's Death | |
| His Retreat into Canada | |
| Visited There by a Government Commission | |
| His Defiant Refusal to Return Home | |
| Speeches by the Chiefs | |
| Sitting Bull's Own Words | |
| The Mighty Fallen | p. 156 |
| Sitting Bull Ruined by His Flight to Canada | |
| His Followers Starved into Mutiny Against Him | |
| The Return to Dakota | |
| The Fate of His Daughter, Sleeping Water | |
| A Vain Appeal | |
| Taken to Fort Randall as a Prisoner of War | |
| The Last Campaign | p. 168 |
| Sitting Bull Involved in the Messiah Craze | |
| His Hope of Regaining His Old Position | |
| Plots and Disaffection | |
| Visited by a Young Lady Missionary | |
| Agent McLaughlin's Visit | |
| The Ghost Dances | |
| Sitting Bull's Remarkable Proposition | |
| Death of the Great Chief | p. 178 |
| General Miles Gave the Word for His Arrest | |
| Was it Intended to Kill Him, Rather than Take Him Alive? | |
| Indian Police Led the Way | |
| The Arrest and Attempted Rescue | |
| The Fatal Shot | |
| Another Account of the Tragedy | |
| Disposition of His Remains | |
| Tributes to his Memory | p. 189 |
| His Neice's Indignation and Grief | |
| Senator's Attempt to be Funny over a Tragedy | |
| "Buffalo Bill's" Tribute | |
| General Schofield's Views | |
| "Adirondack" Murray's Eloquent Protest and Rebuke | |
| Sitting Bull Compared with Webster and with Gladstone | |
| The Sioux Nation | p. 204 |
| Mightiest of all the Native Tribes | |
| Longfellow's "Minnehaha" | |
| Subdivisions of the Tribe | |
| Catlin's Account of Them Half a Century Ago | |
| Not Drunken, nor Naked, nor Poor | |
| A More Recent and Less Friendly View | |
| Legends and Creeds | p. 213 |
| The Indian Holy Land, the Mountains of the Prairies | |
| The Sioux Story of the Flood | |
| Origin of the Red Pipe Stone | |
| Indian Love of the Mysterious | |
| Their Ideas of the Future Life | |
| Their Code of Worldly Ethics Vindicated | |
| In Peace and War | p. 226 |
| The Sioux Language | |
| An Indian's Sense of Humor | |
| "Old Hundred," "Come to Jesus," and the Lord's, Prayer in Sioux | |
| War Paint on the Braves | |
| A Battle with the Pawnees | |
| The Value of a Scalp | |
| Leisurely Interview with a Busy Secretary | |
| Feasting and Dancing | p. 238 |
| Conspicuous Features of Indian Public Life | |
| A Grand Festival in the Olden Time | |
| The Speech of Welcome | |
| Stewed Dog the Leading Dish | |
| The Grass Dance of the Two Kettles and its Accompanying Feast of Dog | |
| Dancing Extraordinary | |
| The Bear Dance, Beggar's Dance, Scalp Dance and Sun Dance | |
| The Ghost Dances | p. 257 |
| A Memorable Season in Indian History | |
| Prophecies of the Coming of the Messiah | |
| The Ghost Dances Intended to Prepare for His Advent, and to Bring the People into Communication with Him | |
| Porcupine's Story of the Messiah and His Command for the Dance | |
| The Indian Messiah | p. 267 |
| Sincerity of the Belief in Him | |
| When and Where He was First Heard of | |
| Porcupine's Visit to Him | |
| What He Said to the Indians | |
| Bad Record of the "Messiah" | |
| His Complicity in the White River Massacre | |
| Another Account of Him | |
| Indian Wars | p. 282 |
| A Shameful Record | |
| A Thousand Dollars Spent for Every Indian in the Country | |
| The Long Catalogue of Conflicts and Expenses | |
| Fearful Cost in Life and Limb as Well as Money and National Honor | |
| The First Sioux War | p. 295 |
| Provoked by White Men | |
| Narrative of One Who Was There | |
| Indescribable Outrages Perpetrated By the Savages Upon Women and Children | |
| A City of Death | |
| General Sibley's Campaign | |
| Sentences of the Ringleaders | |
| Causes of the Last War | p. 304 |
| What the Indians Say | |
| Father Jule's Interview with the Chiefs | |
| The Census | |
| Broken Faith and Diminished Supplies | |
| Letter from American Horse | |
| The Indians' Stories Confirmed by Government Reports | |
| Efforts for Peace | p. 318 |
| Mrs. Weldon's Remarkable Mission to the Camp of Sitting Bull | |
| Her Desire to Confront the Prophet of the Messiah | |
| Forced to Flee for Safety | |
| Her Views of the Situation | |
| Her Life in Dakota | |
| The Seat of War | p. 332 |
| Pine Ridge Reservation and Agency | |
| The Gardens and the Buildings | |
| Dr. McGillicudy's Administration | |
| The Catholic Mission School | |
| Some Account of the Bad Lands | |
| A Truly Horrible Region | |
| Life at Pine Ridge | p. 341 |
| Experience of the War Correspondents | |
| Trying to Take a Picture | |
| The Squaw Dances | |
| "Have You Got Christ in the Guard House?" | |
| FireWater with a Vengeance | |
| The Indian Boys | |
| Married Life | |
| Indians and Settlers | p. 353 |
| Mixed Civilization at Rushville | |
| The Cowboy at Home | |
| Indian Loafers The Cigarette Habit | |
| "Themdaminjuns" | |
| Stories of a Veteran Frontiersman | |
| Unappreciated Architecture | |
| White Ghost | |
| Badly Scared | |
| Red Cloud | p. 367 |
| A Leader of the Hostile Indians | |
| His Treacherous Nature | |
| Romantic Story of His Early Years | |
| A Mission Teacher's Account of Him | |
| His Deceitful Words to a Visitor and His Letter to a Friend | |
| The Leaders of the Sioux | p. 376 |
| Little Wound and His Lieutenants | |
| Yellow Bear | |
| Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses | |
| Otti, the Shoshone | |
| High Bear | |
| American Horse | |
| John Grass, the Indian Judge | |
| Gall, the Greatest of the Sioux Warriors and Generals | |
| Spotted Tail's Eloquent Speech | |
| The Beginning of War | p. 386 |
| Dakota Settlers Panic-Stricken | |
| General Miles on the Situation | |
| Pine Ridge Regarded as the Fatal Point | |
| Rosebud Indians Break Loose | |
| Troops Hurried to the Scene | |
| A Coal Mine for a Fort | |
| A Night's Alarm | |
| A Much-Scared Saddler | |
| Governor Mellette's Letter | |
| From Bad to Worse | p. 401 |
| An Ominous Thanksgiving | |
| Scenes at an Issuing of Beef | |
| "Buffalo Bill" | |
| Plenty Bear's Report | |
| Medicine That Was Not Bullet Proof | |
| An Era of Uncertainty and Lies | |
| Two Deeds Determined Upon | |
| Delay and Disaster | p. 410 |
| Waiting for Somthing to Turn Up | |
| Increased Rations Come Too Late | |
| Depredations by the Hostiles | |
| A Fruitless Pow-Wow at Pine Ridge | |
| The Indians Fighting Among Themselves | |
| Troops Hurrying on to the Bad Lands | |
| Catastrophe | p. 421 |
| The Killing of Sitting Bull and the Results Thereof | |
| Numerous Affrays | |
| A Council at Pine Ridge | |
| Sitting Bull's Ghost | |
| Big Foot and His Men Come In | |
| Arrest of a Pretended Messiah | |
| Hemming in the Hostiles | |
| The Whole Band Captured | |
| Red War | p. 435 |
| Colonel Forsythe Takes Command at Wounded Knee | |
| The Indians Suspicious and Uneasy | |
| Preparations to Disarm Them | |
| A Desperate OUtbreak | |
| The Indians Outnumbered and Slaughtered Without Mercy | |
| Incidents of the Battle | |
| Death of Captain Wallace | |
| List of the Killed and Wounded | |
| Elaine Goodale's Report | |
| Father Craft and His Work | p. 458 |
| A Devoted Priest | |
| Descendant of a Seneca Chief and Successor of Spotted Tail as Chief of the Brules | |
| His Interview With Red Cloud | |
| Arraingment of the Government | |
| After the Battle | p. 472 |
| A Profound Sensation Caused | |
| Varying Comments and Prophecies | |
| Alarm at Pine Ridge | |
| List of the Troops in Service | |
| Murder of Lieut. Casey | |
| Agent Royer Removed | |
| Red Cloud's Flight | |
| The Case of Col. Forsythe | |
| Doubt and Fear | p. 479 |
| Losing Faith in Indian Promises | |
| Strange Scenes in Church | |
| A Wagon Train Attacked | |
| A Midnight Pow-wow | |
| Two Dare-devil Brules | |
| The Fortifications | |
| An Unexpected Advance | |
| Much Talk But Little Action | |
| In at Last | p. 494 |
| The Hostiles Come to Pine Ridge | |
| A Motley Procession | |
| Their Weapons Left Behind, Hidden Away | |
| What the Chiefs Said | |
| General Miles's Generous Conduct | |
| Troops Returning Home | |
| A Delegation of Indians on Their Way to Washington | |
| Letter from "Buffalo Bill" | |
| Who Shall be the Victim? | p. 507 |
| Discussion of the Indian Question by the Rev. W. H. Hare, Missionary Bishop | |
| How the Trouble Was Brought About, and Who Should Be Held Responsible For It | |
| Reflections Inspired by the Conflict at Wounded Knee | |
| The Indian in Congress | p. 519 |
| Starved Into Hostilities | |
| Crime Toward the Indians | |
| Difficulty With the Indian Service | |
| Went to His Grave Through Grief | |
| The Bane and Curse of the Indians | |
| They Have Nothing to Eat | |
| Go Upon the War Path | |
| Lack of Proper Provisions | |
| Accept any Proposition | |
| The Sioux are Starving | |
| Solving the Indian Question | |
| Most Pious Hypocrite | |
| Propose an Investigation | |
| Greatest Indian That Has Lived | |
| The Indian Bureau | p. 537 |
| Shall It Be Under Civil or Military Control? | |
| Record of the Army? General Grant's Experiment | |
| Improvements in Administration | |
| Census of the Indians | |
| Many Indians Civilized and Prosperous | |
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