Sitting Bull, Jumping Badger, Slow - what do we know about the man who went by each of these names? How did he earn them and what was his role in the changing United States of the late 19th century?Don is joined by none other than Sitting Bull's great-grandson, Ernie Lapointe, to hear stories passed down in his family about this Native American icon of resistance.Ernie is a Vietnam veteran and author of 'Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy'.Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. You can take part in our listener survey here.All music from Epidemic Sound/All3 MediaAmerican History Hit is a History Hit podcast.
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Juni 1876. Ein Lakota-Heiliger macht den Sundance in der Rosebud River Valley. Nach dem Fasten tanzt er ständig für zwei Tage und Nächte, ritualistisch 100 Teile von seinem Arm anzubieten, um sich zu schmerzen, um einen höheren spirituellen Raum zu erreichen. Wenn er erwacht, reiht dieser Mann, sitzend, an seine Leute und teilt seine Visionen. Greetings, History Hit listeners. Welcome back.
I'm Don Wildman. There's a real trap in the study of American history, ours being a legacy involving some dark chapters of persecution and oppression, to characterize those who suffered as fallen pawns in the great American chess game. This reduces them to mere victimhood, a single dimension. And it is important and more truthful to try and see these figures in the fullness of their humanity.
We are aiming to do this today as we tell the proud story of Sitting Bull, the Lakota chieftain who was central, strategically and spiritually, to the resistance among Native peoples of the American Great Plains against the U.S. government across what is today the northern states of Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas. Sitting Bull was a star, a living legend within his culture and beyond.
with a story spanning the last half of the 1800s and representing so much of what happened to indigenous peoples as our government laid the groundwork for white settlement across the continent. And doing so, we are in the company of Ernie LaPointe, author of the book Sitting Bull, His Life and Legacy, who also happens to be the great grandson of the man himself.
It is an honor to meet you again in life, Ernie. Nice to be with you. Thank you.
Appreciate you.
You and I met on camera when we were doing a television show about the Battle of Little Bighorn at a place called Dear Medicine Rocks, which is where your great grandfather very famously did the Sundance, which created the vision that he saw about the victory at Bighorn. We spent the day together at this very holy and sacred place, very special day in my life.
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