Useful Links
10 Things You May Not Know About Sitting Bull
https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-sitting-bull Biography of Sitting Bull https://www.nps.gov/libi/learn/historyculture/sitting-bull.htm Description of Wounded Knee Massacre http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.war.056 |
Primary Sources
Primary Source Spotlight: Sioux (Dakota) & Sitting Bull
https://primarysourcenexus.org/2016/11/primary-source-spotlight-sioux-dakota-sitting-bull/
Primary Source sets: Wounded Knee Massacre
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-wounded-knee-massacre
Sitting Bull primary source activity
Interview with Sitting Bull published by the New York Times May 7, 1881 The interview is from an article published toward the end of a four-year period in which Sitting Bull lived in exile in Canada, and was conducted by Major L.N.F. Crozier, a Canadian Mounted Police officer charged with pushing Sitting Bull and other members of the Lakota tribe out of Canada. Lacking sufficient food, Sitting Bull and his followers returned to the United States and surrendered to authorities in July 1881. Read the excerpt below. Summarize what you’ve read in your own words. Then, make a sketch or drawing to illustrate what you’ve learned about Sitting Bull’s confrontation with General Custer.
https://d43fweuh3sg51.cloudfront.net/media/media_files/0c01b6fb-5206-4ed3-a36b-36e459de4b62.pdf
Disaster at Wounded Knee
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/native-american/disaster-at-wounded-knee/
Wounded Knee Massacre aftermath, South Dakota
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=LOT%2011347&fi=number&op=PHRASE&va=exact&co!=coll&sg=true&st=gallery
Wounded Knee Massacre photos
https://www.facinghistory.org/war-only-half-story/surviving-wounded-knee
https://www.facinghistory.org/war-only-half-story/photography-wounded-knee