Sitting Bull Research Paper

The four cardinal virtues of Lakota that Sitting Bull personify are bravery, fortitude, generosity, and wisdom. He developed the four cardinal virtues of his people in his adulthood. “In adulthood Sitting Bull developed into the Hunkpapa incarnate, the admired epitome of four cardinal virtues of the Lakota: bravery, fortitude, generosity, and wisdom” (Utley, 29). The reasons why one fellow tribesman comment that there is something in Sitting Bull that peoples like is children like him because he was kind to them. Women like him because he was nice to family and like help with family troubles. Men like Sitting Bull because he was courageous. The Medicine men like Sitting Bull because they knew he was a man who they can consider a leader. “There …show more content…
Horse and guns allow the Lakotas to grab and defend their fertile hunting grounds. The features helped the Lakotas to follow the herd of buffalos that shape their characteristics way of life. It assisted the Lakotas to evolved into powerful rulers of the northern Great Plains. It was ironic that horses and gun of white culture help them, but less than a century later they got rid of two features. “Ironically, by furnishings the horses and guns, white people made possible the Lakota way of life; then, in less than a century, they destroyed it.” (Utley, …show more content…
Everyone like Sitting Bull because of his nice personality and good qualities. He showed three distinct personalities that was superlative warrior, holy man, and good tribesman. The horses and guns was the two features that the Lakota used during the nineteenth century. The warriors rush back and forth firing their weapons or group together to charge at their enemy. The reasons for combat was to inspire the warriors to show bravery and follow orders when their leader needed them to. The Lakota warriors fought for their desires to achieve by defeat their opponent. The Hunkpapa combat style didn’t work on the white soldiers because the white soldiers had the Long Knives and didn’t fought like the Indians did. Sitting Bull learned that he can’t go against the Long Knives and needed to use to a different strategy against the

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