Ernie Lapointe
Appearances
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Well, my great-grandfather and Crazy Horse were the only two guys that didn't believe in treaties. Because they knew, I guess they threw the ceremonies there. Der weiße Mann hat diese Teile von Papier gemacht. Und die meisten Chiefs, die meisten Leiter, die meisten Sprechleute kommen rein und sagen, sie haben es verstanden. Aber sie wurden gesagt, sie werden das Papier nie vertreten.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Sie sagten, sie würden viele gute Dinge sagen, aber sie würden es nicht vertreten. Aber ihr Hauptziel hier war, Geld zu verdienen. Und das ist das, was die Little Big Horn Battlefield begonnen hat. Sie kamen in eine Treaty von 1868. Sie sagten, die Lakota-Nation, sie gab ihnen die Black Hills, wo ich gerade lebe. Das ist das heilige Land der Lakota, das so viele mysteriöse Dinge in den Bergen hat.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
They give them the Black Hills, which is where I live right now, that constitute a spiritual realm. So, many people who passed away are buried along the outer edges, some are on the inside. It's like a cemetery, a burial grounds, different places. And to us, it's sacred, everything about this, because... I'll take a step back and tell you about why they call it Turtle Island.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
If you look at the Earth from space, it looks like a big turtle. The right leg is Florida and its left hind leg is the Baja Peninsula of California and its tail curves into the Central America. Und seine Hände gehen nach Kanada hoch. Und in der Mitte, das Herz der Turtel, sind die Black Hills. Wieder einmal, ein weiterer Schritt zurück, ist, dass das ganze Welt unter Wasser war.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Im Grunde haben die Christen das gleiche Konzept. Noah und sein Boot und so weiter. Aber in diesem, gab es diese Wasser überall. And on top of the water was Valkantanka, the great mystery, on a buffalo rope. And he was floating on top of the water like a boat. And then he heard a voice call. Now each storyteller tells this differently. So he looked up and he seen this.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Some say it's an eagle, some say it's a hawk, some say it's a crow. Everybody, depending on each nation who tells this story. I use the eagle. This eagle was flying above him and he's yelling down at the creator. Er sagt, dass er sich etwas müde fühlt. Seine Hände sind müde. Er hat das Land, das Licht. Der Kreator hat sich in seine Medizin-Bäckchen eingereicht.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Er hatte eine Bässe mit heiligen Items. Er hat sie in eine Lune genommen. Es war ein kleiner Hund. Er hat gesagt, schiebe mich nach unten und bringe mir etwas Müd. Die Lune ist weg. He was gone for a while, come back up and he says, man, he says, I can't even see the bottom. So he reached in and took out an otter. He says, you go down. So he drove, he's gone a little longer.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Then he came back up and said, man, he said, I can't even see the bottom. So he actually took out a beaver. A beaver had a flat tail, so he said, propel yourself to the bottom. So he went. He was gone for a while and he come back up and he says, man, he said, I can see the bottom. He said, but my lungs are bursting. He said, I couldn't get to it.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
So he reached in his little bag and took out a turtle. He says, you dive to the bottom. So... Jedes Mal, wenn einer von diesen Jungs weint, hat er einen Drummer. Er hat einen Drummer und er singt eine Geheimnis-Song für ihn. Und sein Turtel, er war weg. Und die anderen drei, die mit ihm sitzen, sagten, er ist weg. Und dann kam er wieder zurück.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Er hatte Müll, alles in seiner Schale, seine Klauen, sein Haar, innerhalb seiner Schale. So the creator took out some mud, he made a mud paddy out of it, put it on top of the water, he clapped his hands and it turned into land. It became what the United States is, the North American continent is. And then he took other mud pieces out and he made little humans and put them on there.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
He stood on it and stomped his foot and they all became man and woman. He told me, he says, now, he says, live on this island, he says, and take care of all living things that grows from it to balance the ecosystem, he says, and you will live. From then on, he created other animals like the buffalo, the deer, the trees. He said, I'll have a spirit. He said, I'll respect and take care of it.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
He said, take care and nurture this turtle island. So that's why we call this Black Hills the heart of the turtle island. See, everything has a story of our creation here. And it's a beautiful story. It's a beautiful way of life. For thousands of years we lived on this turtle island. We never destroyed it.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
In 1876, when this battle happened, they're already separating the natives. They make promises to them. And, you know, they have a lot of these natives that lived around these forts. They call them hang around the forts. They give them beef to survive on. And then you had the non-treaty Indians, we call them. These were like my grandfather. And Americans call them hostiles.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
They weren't hostiles, they just didn't want to... gravitate toward becoming part of the system of getting handouts from the white man. So they lived all over the areas where the white man feared to come in there because, again, fear. Instead of coming there with peace, they wanted to come and fight him and stuff. But their main goal in this whole existence was gold.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
And gold to the Lakota is a worthless iron ore. It has no spiritual value. I mean, a rock has more spiritual value than gold. Ein Stück Gold, ein Goldnugget. Aber sie konnten nicht verstehen, warum ein Amerikaner seinen eigenen Freund töten würde oder seine eigene Großmutter's Geist verkaufen würde. Und das ist es, was sie gemacht haben. Sie haben Gold in den Black Hills entdeckt.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Hier, wo wir leben, wo ich hier lebe, wir leben in diesem Ort, den Sie nennen Home State Goldmine. Sie hielten Gold. Und sie entdeckten, dass es Gold ist. Und wenn sie es gemacht haben, gaben sie den Black Hills-Treaty, das Geheimnis der Lakota, aus dem Fenster. Sie brachten ihre eigenen Treaty. Auf der anderen Seite kam das Wort an alle non-Treaty-Native aus Sula Baster.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Ich meine, du sprichst über das Internet, du sprichst über Telefone und all das. Der Moccasin-Telegraph ist viel schneller geworden. All the non-natives know about this in an instant, how they do it. Even now, today, it's still like that. My wife and I were talking about it the other day. You do something or say something out here, the people in eastern South Dakota know it.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
And they're not using telephones or computers or nothing, they just know. They called it the Moccasin Telegraph. But that's how they knew. And word went out to all non-treaty natives. My grandfather sent it out. He wanted to do a council with the white man. How do they honor what they said on their treaty? He said he didn't believe that they were going to honor it anyway.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
But how are they going to protect it? Okay. But on the other hand, the Americans didn't know about this. They heard that my great-grandfather was calling a meeting, a council. All non-treaty Indians were coming together up in Montana. So they created three columns of soldiers, you know, one coming out of Fort Laramie. You know, you had Krug, Gibb, and Custer, and all these guys.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Custer was coming out of Bismarck, North Dakota, to converge and to trap them and to annihilate them. That's what their thing was. There's no council or talking. They just wanted to go battle with them. But my grandfather was... So the whole camp moved. They got to the river and they crossed it and they... Trees are the camp.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
And they were waiting for others to come so they could hold this council. Well, Custer had left earlier and he had a force march. He made his men ride day and night to try to encounter the natives. And so that's how the battle started. I mean, that's how it ended up when he came. And he was hot-headed and he was egotistical and he wanted to
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
After he killed off all the Lakota, he was going to be president. He was going to run for president. He had already had the vision read. And he told the people to beware of it. And when Krug came out, they thought that was the vision. He said, no. He said, this is not the vision. He said, it's coming. Well, when it came...
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Again, I always emphasize the fact that women are the wisest of the whole thing. So my grandfather went into his teepee, and he was in his 40s by this time, and he comes out carrying his weapons. And as he walked out of the teepee, his mother was waiting for him. And she stopped him. She says, you have done enough for the people. You have protected, provided.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
She says, but you let the young men show their worth, show their expertise in combat. She says, take the non-combatants to a safe place and you'll take care of them there. Die Kinder, die alten Leute und alle anderen. Also hat er es gemacht. Er hat keine... Er hat seine Mutter gehört.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Und das ist, das ist, wo... Ich meine, er hatte bereits all diese... Er hatte so viel... Er hat seine eigene Bravour auf dem Kriegsfeld gezeigt. Gegen andere Niederländer. Und auch gegen die Non-Niederländer, die Weißen. Aber er hat seine Mutter gehört. Er hat die Non-Kombatanten genommen, um die jüngeren Männer mit Kostüm zu kämpfen.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Natürlich war es die Union, aber es gab keine militärische Sache. Jeder Einzelne hat seinen eigenen Stil des Kampfes. Das nennt man Guerillamord. Ich habe das in Vietnam gesehen, als ich da war. Die Guerilla, so waren sie. Sie waren Guerilla-Fahrer. Ich meine, sie kämpften nicht in Gruppen wie die Amerikaner, wie Platoon und andere. Und man musste auf einen Manns Ordnung folgen.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Du hattest dein eigenes Instinkt, wie du kämpfst. Du hattest dein eigenes Instinkt, wie du weißt, von wo sie dich schießen können. Du hattest dein eigenes Instinkt, wie du das tun kannst. Und das ist, was sie mit Crook verwendet haben.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Wenn man die Geschichtebücher über Crook lesen kann, General Crook, als er im Kampf gegen den Rosebud war, hat er gesagt, man, es waren wahrscheinlich 2.000 hessische Soldaten, aber in der echten Realität waren es wahrscheinlich 60 Soldaten, nach dem Mathematik, die nach seinem Kolumn von Soldaten kamen, es waren nur 2.000 von ihnen.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Und Crook dachte, er war ein wildes Nummer, aber es war ein Guerilla-Fight. Du hattest ihn in strategischen Bereichen, also in einem Kolumn, um es zu sehen, als wäre es mehr als ungewöhnlich. Und das ist es, was ihn zurückgezogen hat. In the same way, if you read about the Custer, even today, the Custer Buster trying to find out why, or tell stories why Custer lost. Because he was a great hero.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
And they said he outnumbered. He was outnumbered, which wasn't true. My great uncles told me there was probably... 600-700 Männer im Kriegszeitraum, die Kriegsküste. Es gab keine 25.000 Indiener. Sie hatten mehr Pferde als Menschen.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Das Letzte, was ich gehört habe, ist in diesem kleinen Buch, dass Chris Dixon, er ist aus Skotland, er hat dieses Buch geschrieben, er ist nicht ein guter Freund, er ist ein Professor, und er hat mit mir viele Male gesprochen, und er hat dieses kleine Artikel geschrieben, er hat einige Leute interviewt, und sie sagten, sie waren in der Küste, und die halbe der Befehle hatte Sipplis. Das ist so,
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
He was willing to have a council with the Americans, but they were pretty well entrenched in hate because the cluster lost. So he decided to take his non-combatants north. was sie als Großmütter nach Kanada genannt haben. Und sie sind in Kanada geflogen. Sie kamen da hoch und bevor sie in das kanadische Land geflogen sind, die Leute, die dort lebten, waren die Blackfeet-Männer.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Sie nennen sie jetzt Blutmänner. In Kanada nennen sie sie Blutmänner, Blutnation. Auf dieser Seite der Grenze nennen sie sie Blackfeet. Und ihr Hauptmann war ein Kerl. Und die Lakota und die Blackfeet waren wirklich Adversarien. My grandfather went and had counsel with Crowfoot. And they sat down and they filled the pipe and they talked. What he wanted to do, he wanted to protect his people.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Because he figured that the Americans were going to annihilate them. So he invited them to come across. So they went across. He asked permission to come across into their land. They didn't look at it as Canadians or Americans. They looked at it as, because they lived this land for years, centuries. So he agreed.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
So they took them in and they fed them, they took care of them and everything, the whole nations. I mean, there were thousands of people that kept showing up. Even after the battle, people kept showing up, non-Tree Indians. So they followed them north. I mean, there were Oglalas, Hunchpapas, Hunchmenikhojos, you name it. Viele verschiedene Nationen kamen und folgten ihnen.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Aber es waren so viele von ihnen, dass der kanadische Regierung sie nicht mehr da hatten, weil sie ihre Menschen, die Griechen, die Blutmenschen und alles überbrachten. Also fingen die anderen auf zurückzukommen und sich dem Regierung zu verlassen. Aber mein Großvater blieb dort. Und er war ein Freund von Major Walsh, James Walsh. Er ist ein maunerischer, kanadischer, maunerischer Polizist.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Und Walsh hat ihm gezeigt, wie man seinen Namen mit Kursen sprechen kann. Und er hat mit ihm viele Dinge geteilt. Und wir sind Freunde geworden. Und er hat sein Bestes getan, um meinen Großvater dort zu halten. Er ist nach Washington gegangen, auf seine behalf. Und er hat alles getan, was er wollte. Die kanadische Regierung wollte ihn noch nicht da oben, weil sie ihn als Troublemaker bezeichneten.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Ich weiß nicht, warum. Walsh versuchte ihn dort oben zu bringen, aber es hat ihm nicht geholfen. Also musste er zurückkommen. Aber viele von ihnen haben dort geblieben. Ich habe einen Cousin, die noch dort lebt. Sie ist mir durch Sitting Bulls Onkel, Pullhorns, gelebt. Seine Leute sind noch in Kanada. In einem Ort namens Wood Mountain.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Es ist eine Reserve für diejenigen, die nicht mit den anderen zurückgekommen sind. In 1881, als er zurückkam im Juli, verabschiedete er sich in einem Ort namens Fort Buford in Norddakota. Und das war, als sie ihn als Haustier bezeichneten. Auf der anderen Seite, schickten sie ihn zu Fort Randall, was hier in Norddakota ist.
American History Hit
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Und die Amerikaner sagten, dass er dort in schützendem Gefängnis gehalten wurde. Aber tatsächlich wurde er als Gefängnisgegner gehalten. Gefängnisgegner, du weißt, als Teil des... Weil sie ihn verurteilt haben, weil Cluster verurteilt wurde, weil er nicht mal in der Waffe war. Er hatte nur die Vision, du weißt, Cluster in einem Camp mit Milliarden.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Also, im Grunde genommen, haben sie ihn da ein paar Jahre gehalten. In Port Randall, du weißt, als, äh, ich würde es gerne sagen, als schützendem Gefängnisgegner. Er und seine Leute. Bis sie ihn letztendlich rausgelassen haben, um ihn zu stehen. I'll be back with more American History after this short break.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Das war genau nachdem er von Port Mewport ausgeliefert wurde. Und er hat ihn zurückgezogen nach Standing Rock, er und seine Familie. Und was sie gemacht haben, als er auf den Grand River ging, da war ein kleiner Kabinett. Es war von seinem Bruder-in-Law, Gregor. Also hat er es ihm erlaubt, dort zu bleiben. Und das ganze Camp campte mit ihm dort.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Und der erste, der mitgekommen ist, war ein Typ namens Albert Allen. He was a showman. And he heard about this show, people doing shows with natives. So he came to Standing Rock and he inquired to McLaughlin, who was the Indian agent there, if he could take my great-grandfather and some of his participants on a little trip. I mean, he had to have an agreement. So he did. So he allowed him to.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
So his show, he called it City Wall Connection. They toured the northern hemisphere of the United States, Standing Rock, which is in North South Dakota there, along into northern Minnesota, into Wisconsin, up into the northern parts of Michigan, along the border there, the Canadian border.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
And then coming back, just a little trip, they came along the edge of Lake Michigan and came into what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota. Und sie waren da an einem Show. Und der kleine Wissenschaftler sagte, komm, sieh, was du da sitzt. Das ist, wo er in die Annie Oakley rannte. Sie war eine kurze, kurze Frau mit einem großen Schuss mit einem Pfeil.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Und sie hatte diese großen Pfeile, die größer waren als sie. Aber sie konnte die Ziele schießen. Die Leute schießen etwas und sie schießt es. Also war er beeindruckt von ihr. Und er sagte, als er sie gesehen hat, Sie hat ihn von seiner Tochter erinnert, die nicht mit ihm gekommen ist. Sein Name war Walks Looky. Und er hat gesagt, sie sah aus wie meine Tochter Walks Looky.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Also kam er her und sie haben ihn eingeladen. Sie hatten einen Interpreter, der beide gesprochen hat. Und er hat gesagt, er war beeindruckt von ihr, dass jemand, der so kurz ist, Sie war so ein toller Schuss. Und er gab ihr ein Paar Moccasins, Moccasins mit Moccasins als Geschenk. Weil ich diese Annie Oakley's große Großvaterin kennengelernt habe. Sie ist jetzt weggegangen, aber sie lebt in Ohio.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Sie erzählte mir die Geschichte über die Moccasins, die mein Großvater ihr gab. Und anyhow, er kam zurück zur Standung. Und das ist, was Cody herausgefunden hat. Also kam er und fragte McLaughlin. Und McLaughlin hat ihm erlaubt, das zu tun, weil er wollte, dass die Welt, das Land zu sehen, dass Sitting Bull ein Schwachsinn war. Killer und all this kind of stuff. So he allowed Cody to take it.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Nun, als ich vier oder fünf Jahre alt war, war meine Mutter eine Großvaterin eines Zivilisten. Und sie erzählte uns im Grunde über sein Leben und über unsere Kultur. I didn't really know. She just talked about him as a grandfather. So I didn't know he was famous or anything. He was just another person that she spoke about. She didn't talk to us like we're talking to each other now.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
So they started out east and by the time they got to halfway across the United States, you know, every time they had a show, people would come and hiss at him, spit at him and yell derogatory marks at him. He didn't understand what they were saying, but he couldn't figure out, why are they doing this, you know? I mean, he had a whole group of natives with him. They were doing reenactments.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
And so finally, eventually, one of the Translators came up and he told my grandfather, he said, that big banner that's just over a gate. But Cody wrote and said, come see Sillingville, killer of Custer. And they would spit at him and yell at him. So he started to realize that this wasn't really like the Albert Allen show, you know, that people showed respect to him.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
It was just using him as a prop to make money. People were paying money to come see him. And they booed him and all kinds of stuff. But as he went along, they went further east and they got to the east coast. And they were at the city, what they call the city of Brotherly Love, which is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
And they were there and people of Philadelphia came and wanted to show him the city of Brotherly Love. So him and his group, they took him out into the streets. And they were walking down the streets. And the minute they walked down the street, all these little white kids come out. They were dirty-faced, raggedy clothing, hungry. And they were begging for food. My grandfather was shocked.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
He says, wow. Lakota, we call our children Wakansha, which is short for Wakant Ichaka. Something sacred is growing. It never goes hungry, cold, hungry. Es ist in einem Artikel im Journalismus. Ein Freund von mir hat gefragt, ob das wirklich passiert ist. Ich sagte, unsere alte Geschichte erzählt uns das. Er sah es und ging in die Archive der Philadelphia Newspaper.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Er fand dieses kleine Artikel in der Philadelphia Newspaper, das hatte ihn da, was er machte. Er hatte Geld und Geld für die heimischen Kinder. Ja. Ja. Ja. So he is returned to Standing Rock. And you mentioned a minute ago that his death was precipitated by the native people there. Can you tell us about that and about the vision that he has of this?
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Right after he came back from the Cody thing, the people were getting kind of, I guess, at the end of their rope. They were losing hope. And these two guys, Chickenberry and Shortbow, were two native guys. And they heard about this guy who sent out word to all nations, all people in the world, I mean the United States. His name was Waboka. He was a Paiute Indian in Nevada.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
He had a message, he had a vision. So they went to see what this was about. Even all religions showed up, different Christian religions, the Mormons came and everybody. So they went to see this guy. He was a Paiute Indian, he was dressed in American clothes and he had this big black top hat. And it was a beaver felt top hat. And he took it off and he showed it.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Die Leute, die da waren, die in diesem Hat, er sagte, er sah in dort und er sah, wie die Zukunft der Welt war und die Leute und das Land hier, dass alle Menschen miteinander zusammengehen, dass sie in Harmonie mit einem anderen leben, in diesem Hat. Und das war, was er ihm teilen wollte. He says, you have to do this. Wow. Everybody sat there and listened to this.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
And, you know, most of these guys didn't really, especially the non-native ones, didn't really believe this. That you could look inside of a hat and see this, right? So he shared with them what they should do and all that. Wow, these two guys kicking back shoreboat on their way back. See, they're on horses, you know, and, you know, they had a camp.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
So they're coming back and they conjured up this story. See, their story was that if They had to make certain items. A ghost shirt. This ghost shirt had certain designs on it. And this idea was sprung from the Mormons. The Mormons wore underwear. It's supposed to protect them. You know, the shirt and underwear.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
She spoke to me in Lakota language, so it doesn't take as much talking. It was just one sentence covered a lot. In Lakota. Und sie verwendete viel Humor. Sie erzählte eine Geschichte, ein paar Sätze, und dann würde sie etwas sagen oder etwas viel sagen. Und du lachst. Ich dachte, es war eine lustige Geschichte, die sie uns erzählt hat, weil sie uns lacht.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
You know, that certain ways that it's supposed to help them understand the creation or something. I don't know what it's all about. But they took that idea and incorporated it into the ghost dad shirt. And then they created these songs coming back. Und bei der Zeit, als sie die Wooden River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, oder in Arapaho, bekommen haben, hatten sie es auf dem Weg.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Denn es hat ihnen gedauert, um hier von Nevada zurückzukommen. Und sie haben ihnen gesagt, das ist, was sie gesehen haben. Also es ist nicht wie die Sonnen-Dance, sondern es ist eine Geister-Dance. Weißt du, was sie die Geister-Dance nennen. Es ist nicht eine Lakota oder eine Native-Zeremonie. Es sind zwei Jungs, die das gemacht haben. Und diese Jungs tanzen auf diesem Baum.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
He couldn't understand what the heck they were doing. Well, he didn't really approve of it, but he couldn't say no to them because they're hanging on by the end of the rope. They didn't know what to do with themselves because they killed off the buffalo. They took away all the ways to survive as humans. So he allowed them to do it.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
It started getting out of hand because people were dancing on this tree and they followed, they died. And he said, we got to do something about this. It was 1890. As he's walking along there, there's a little brook there. He stopped by the little brook and all of a sudden this meadowlark came along. And it's a meadowlark, it's a bird, the yellow chest.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
And as I was next to him there by the little brook there, he started drinking some of the water. And he looked at him and he looked at my grandfather and said, in Lakota, he said, Lakota nikte piktelo. He said, Lakota nikte piktelo. Er hat gesagt, die Lakota-Leute werden dich töten. Und er hat es zweimal gesagt. Und er hat gesagt, er wollte herausfinden, warum sie mich töten wollen.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Weil ich sie gesorgt habe, sie getötet habe, sie geschützt habe. Und ich versuche immer mein Bestes, um das zu tun. Also hat er immer versucht, sein Bestes zu tun. Und es war... Und dann hat er einen Konsul mit seiner Gruppe von Leuten da, die ihnen sagen, wir müssen etwas tun, weil diese Leute tanzen, auch in der Winterzeit, in der Kälte.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Und er hat gesagt, naja, du weißt, dieses Ding ist in der Pahenrage-Agenzie, im Süden, in Ugalalas. Also hat er gesagt, naja, ich gehe runter und habe einen Konsul mit Red Cloud. Und er hat ihn untergebracht und gefragt, wie können wir zusammenkommen und stoppen dieses Ghost-Tanzen. Die Leute sterben einfach von all dem.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Well, all this time before when he was doing this, he told meetings he had his nephew there. And one of his nephews, his name was One Bull. And One Bull was told by McLaughlin that he would give him so much gifts and stuff if he would tell him what to say in his council meetings. So east of the camp. There was a little place called Little Eagle. And there was a schoolhouse.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
The school teacher had a telegraph. So one boy would go over there every night after every council meeting and tell this school teacher who spoke Lakota. So he would tell him what this is. So he telegraphed McLaughlin and told him what the plans that they were doing. And Sidney will start to realize, start to figure out, you know, this guy here is knowing everything I'm doing.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
Aber ihre Grundlage für das war, sie sagte, jedes Mal, wenn du lachst, ist es wie ein Storbutton in deinem Gehirn. Es stört Informationen. Also erinnerst du dich immer wieder in der Zukunft. Ich versuche, das selbst zu tun, indem ich Humor benutze, wenn ich versuche, mit Leuten zu sprechen. And I always tell people this, you know, when you listen to stories in a native language, it stays with you.
American History Hit
Who Was Sitting Bull?
How is he doing this, right? Well, he had a meeting. He said he was going to have a meeting. And McLaughlin didn't want Sitting Bull to leave the Standing Rock area. I kept him pretty much corralled with no fans. And he wanted to go have a meeting with Kyle, with the Red Cloud. So one boy went over to the schoolhouse and the guy wasn't there.
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So from there he rode himself all the way to Fort Yates, North Dakota, to bring the message that Sitting Bull was leaving the next day to visit Red Cloud. But he didn't say it in them words, but you know, kind of like... Er hatte einen Teepee, der neben dem Kabinett war. Er schlug ihn zurück in seinen Teepee und dann kam die indische Polizei.
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Und die Stronghearts, die Verteidiger meines Großvaters, kamen raus und sagten ihnen, nicht zu gehen, um zu resistieren. Weil sie glaubten, sie würden ihn töten. Und er wollte nur herausfinden, warum McLaughlin ihn verhaftet hat. Währenddessen brach ein Schuss raus und sie riefen Tomahawk und Bullhead. Es waren zwei Jungs, die ihn schießen.
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Einer schießt ihn in den Kopf, der andere schießt ihn in den Herz. Und sie töten ihn. Also kam all das mit dem Ghost Dance raus.
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Ich wünsche mir nur, dass die Leute von meinen Worten hören, dass sie Angst haben. Weil Angst ist das, was die Leute machen. Sie folgen einem Führer, wie sie es nennen. Sie wählen, sie zu führen. Und all das, was ein Führer tut, ist, dass er die Leute überwinden will. Er überwindet alles.
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Die Leute wissen nicht, dass das, was in der Zukunft kommt, das meiste Schmerz in den Augen von einigen Leuten ist. Mit mir sind es ihre Seelen. Ich respektiere ihre Seelen. Wie du, Don, alle, die ich kennengelernt habe. Ich schaue nicht nach draußen, ich schaue nach deiner Seele. Ich kann es sehen. Wir wussten alle einander. Wir kamen alle aus dem gleichen Ort.
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Und wir kamen aus verschiedenen Bereichen der Welt. Aber wir waren alle zu einem Zeitpunkt die Geister des Kreators. Und wir kommen rein. Wir haben ein Körper, das aus der Mutter Erde kommt. Und die Mutter Erde will wirklich nicht wieder ihre Kinder zerstören. Aber wir gehen dafür. Wir haben eine neue Welt. Aber ich habe die Schöpfung nicht gefragt, ob wir wieder Menschen haben werden.
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Und die Seelen dieser Menschen, die Hate, Greed, Racism, fear, that's what it is, are going to be on this earth screaming and hollering for eternity. There's no heaven or hell in our world. The only thing we have is a spirit world and what you create for yourself. Hell is what you create for yourself. If you let go of fear, you see how people can get along.
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Just laughter and kindness instead of fear. Like I was taught as a child growing up, my mother told me to find myself. She says, find yourself when you're inside. Listen to the stories of your elders and take a little piece of their story.
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In this language, we're talking to each other. It's really hard because the language has too many meanings, too many words made up, so it doesn't stay like it does if you...
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The Lakota people make up over 500 different nations that were in this country at the beginning before the European nation came here. And we're basically one of a nation that, we were like nomadic. We followed the buffalo. That was our source of food. We used every part of the buffalo. So, you know, it's basically the herds moved further, we followed it.
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We really didn't have one area that you stayed at forever. Like some tribes, they have whole gardens and earthen huts that they built. They're permanent. With us, we just moved around. And, well, our nation consists of three. We call them the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota. And all different parts, you know, like Dakota are in Minnesota. The Nakota are down, we're down in the Iowa, Nebraska area.
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The Lakota, we cover North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming. Now, Sitting Bull, your great-grandfather, is known the world over. If you had to summarize why that was, what would you say? Well, basically, he never knew he was going to be looked at as a historian or something. But I have one story in my mother's telling that I think kind of touches on how come the world knows him.
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And it was at a first ceremony that he did, which is called the Sundance. And they pierced him on the front and on the back and they lifted him off the ground. And he was probably six, seven inches off the ground and he went into a trance. And Er ging zurück, als er ein kleines Mädchen war. In seiner Sicht ging er über das Feld. Und er hörte eine Stimme, die ihn um Hilfe gerufen hat.
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Also ging er über, um zu investigieren. Und da lag ein Wolf da. In den Bäumen da. Er hatte zwei Arme an seiner Seite. Also ging der Junge über und hat die Arme entfernt. Und in seiner Sicht war es wie ein Zeitverlust. Boom, er hat die Arme entfernt. Die Arme, und er heilte seine Wunden. Und im nächsten Moment, wurde der Wolf ein bisschen heilt, und er begann zu gehen.
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Und als er wegging, stoppte er, schaute zurück auf meinen Großvater, seinen kleinen Jungen, und sagte, Junge, er sagte, für mich zu helfen. Er sagte, die Nationen wissen dich, sie werden dich nur mit deinem Namen kennen. und ging weg. Aber er wusste nicht, dass... Er dachte nur, dass die Nationen, die an den Treppen sind, nicht wussten, dass es um die Welt geht. Er war ein spiritueller Mensch.
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Die meiste seiner Leben hat er mit den Geistern kommuniziert. Und das mache ich selbst. Ich habe einen Zeremonienraum, in den ich morgens und nachts reingehe. Und ich kommuniziere mit den Geistern. Und ich frage sie, um mir Richtung zu geben. Und was ich in diesem Leben tun muss. Also, das ist es, was er gemacht hat.
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Und ich glaube, die Grund, warum die Leute ihn kennen, ist, weil er die Vision von den Sundance hatte, bevor Kuster mit ihm kam, was wir den Kriegsgras-Battel nennen, den Kriegsgras-Battel, den sie den Kriegsgras-Battel nennen, den Kuster und seine Männer nennen. Just leave them as they lie. He says, this will solidify what you're doing, protecting your way of life, your people, your culture.
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But evidently the people didn't do that, so we had to suffer at the hands of the future generations of the Americans.
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Es war Mai 1831, als er geboren wurde, in einem Ort namens Orange Creek, in einem Ort namens Miles City, Montana. Das ist wie ein österreichischer Teil von Montana. Als er geboren wurde, hatte er einen namenlosen Kind. Die meisten Menschen, die geboren sind, haben ein namenloses Kind. Normalerweise kommt es vom Vater, was er sieht, sobald das Kind geboren wird.
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Und sein Vater sieht einige Badges, kleine Tiere. They're jumping around out there. So, and then they told him he had a son. So he named his son Jumping Badger. In Lakota, we call it Ho'oposija. And as he got a little older, he was already, in a way, a matter of speaking, he was born as a gifted child. So he always analyzed things before he acted as a young kid.
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So the people around him, the nation, the village called him Hukishni, you know, which means slow or weak, because he was always not doing anything, participating in what little kids usually do. He was older. Aber er lernte eigentlich nur Dinge, als er jung war.
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Und als er genug alt war, um auf Rädern zu gehen, mit den anderen Männern, hatte er seinen ersten Krieg, wie wir ihn nennen, er hatte einen Stick. Und er hat einen Krow-Chef getroffen, als sie Räder fuhren. Und dieser Kerl kam aus seinem Team und er hat ihn mit dem Stick geworfen. Und es scheint, dass der Kerl, den er getroffen hat, ein Krow-Chef war.
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And since he did that, his father seen it, and he bestowed the name Sitting Bull. He took his name and gave it to him. So he earned the name Sitting Bull. So his father gave him the name, his name. He called himself Sitting Bull first, but he gave that name to his son. And then he took the second name. He had four names that was given to him by the Buffalo Nation.
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So the first name was Sitting Bull, so he took that for himself. Well, it wasn't really what Sitting Bull was. And then the second name was Tadhukab Sija, which is Jumping Bull. So he took that name for himself, gave his name to his son. So that's how he became known around the world. It really doesn't mean sitting bulls. It means a buffalo bull who starts to sit down. He isn't sitting yet.
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He just starts to sit. But the Americans in their translations, they... Und was ist seine Rolle? Würde Sitting Bull sich als Leiter verstehen? Well, you know, the story of our culture. See, again, our cultures were the American historians. They took the culture, our people, to kind of try to equate it to theirs. They have leaders. In the Lakota way, each man is a leader of his tipi, of his home.
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And you have your spiritual leaders. Ja, genau. Er versteht die Wissen einer Frau. Und sobald eine Person das erhält, erhält sie einen bestimmten Prozent der Wissen einer Frau. Die Frauen sehen das und dann benutzen sie die Männer für ihre Vorsitzungen. Alle Männer sind Vorsitzende. Und dann ist ein Chef, wie sie es in der amerikanischen Sprache nennen, ein Chef ist ein Sprechleiter.
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Er ist ein Betreuer, er ist ein Betreuer. Es ist ein Mann, der seine Wissen einer Frau zeigt, aber er ist ein Mann. Und er kümmert sich um diejenigen, die Hilfe brauchen. Wenn sie hungrig sind, fährt er sie. Wenn sie etwas brauchen, eine TV, gibt er ihnen eine. Wenn sie Transport brauchen, hat er immer mehr als einen Horsen. Er gibt ihnen einen Horsen, um zu reisen.
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Und das ist, wie die Frauen ihn sehen. Als ein Mann, der in den Kanzeln von anderen Nationen ist, ist er ein Sprechleiter. Er sitzt dort ohne Angst, ohne Hass. Er muss neutral sein. Und diese Person erzeugt diese gleiche Qualität, eine Frauens Qualität, eine Frauens Wissens. Und er ist ein Verbraucher und ein Verteidiger. Er ist ein Mann, der seine Ego-Fäden mit Wunsch erhielt.
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Er hat nicht Menschen getötet, er hat sie mit seinem Stick getäuscht. So basically, when Americans came in and wrote books about him, they said he was a chief, he was a leader. And he was just an inspirational caretaker, a spokesperson for the people. And that's what most chiefs are. And you have some that are like Crazy Horse, who was a warrior chief. He was a leader.
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Not a leader, but he was an inspirational leader. Er hat immer gesagt, strong hearts to the front, weak guys behind. Let's go into battle and stuff. He was the main protector of the camp, the people. That's what he did. And my great grandfather was a spokesperson. He tried to educate the Americans and all other nations. Our people were welcoming them into our society, into our area.
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We didn't have to do the fighting, but the Americans came in there and they feared the natives, so they started shooting and killing them. See, that's the two different sides, but the American storytellers glorify the murderers and the killers more than the native side. They always call us noble savages, which is an oxymoron term. How can you be a noble and be savage at the same time?
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So, basically, he was really a spokesperson for his tribe. And actually, on the other hand, too, as a protector and as a caregiver for the people, he was a Sundancer. A Sundance is like the flashing in German. It's a renewal of new life every year. That's what the Sundance is for. When I Sundance, that's what I did. I prayed for the Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020 That's who we are.
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And the Americans the other night was watching a Thunderheart. The guy said, they're defeated people. They never defeated us. Not in a battlefield. They never defeated us. We're still here. And they created their Second Amendment. They carried a gun because of us. They feared us. So they wanted to kill us. That's why they had their guns. Whereas I would tell people, why do you want to fear us?
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We were a spiritual people who lived with harmony with nature and each other. So don't fear us. Be with us. We try to help you to survive, to make it back to the spirit world.