Slow was born during the winter of March 1831, on the South bank of Ree River, now called Frand River. He was an only son, and was named Slow because his manner of being. As an infant he would take his time to analyze and study whatever was given to him. As an infant Slow rode on a baby-board on his mothers back. As a toddler, he rode in a basket tied to his mother's pony. At the age of five slow got to ride on the pony's rump behind his mother. Slow would hang on to her belt for safety. By the age of ten he was riding his very own gray pony (Vestal 7-18).

Owning his very own pony gave Slow added freedom. Slow enjoyed riding his pony out in the prairies, and playing games with the other young Indians. He killed his first buffalo at the age of ten. This was considered to be very young. "Though born a male, he as yet rated no better than a woman"

Slow did not notify his family, not even his mother that he had decided to go with the war party. "And of course it was not part of a man to consult a woman about war!" (Vestal 9)

In 1884, he joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. In 1887, Sitting Bull refused to go to England with the show.

In 1890, Ghost Dance craze reached the Sioux reservation. Sitting Bull was asked to join but refused. He felt he was too old for new ideas in religion. This new craze made the white very uneasy and wanted Sitting Bull to be captured. On December or 1890, Sitting Bull was killed by and Indian Police named Red Tomahawk during his capture at his camp (Brown 175).

One day while hunting Sitting Bull fell asleep under a tree. While asleep he had a dream in which he saw a yellow bird that had saved his life from a grizzly bear attacking him. The Yellowhammer bird had saved his life by knocking twice on the tree. It seemed to say, "Lie still! Lie still!" (Vestal 20) When Sitting Bull woke he noticed that the grizzly bear had been there. He saw the yellowhammer up on the tree. With this he gave thanks by, "Raising his hands towards it in the Indian gesture of blessing, he composed and sang a new song on the spot, the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Vestal 21).

Sitting Bull had been chief for about eight years when he became angry enough to fight the white men. Sitting Bull was in supreme command of one of the largest camps of Plain Indians, ever brought together for war. Only half of his people were armed with firearms. This came after broken promises and treaty violations. One of the treaties to be broken was the treaty of 1868 that read; " No white person or persons shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy any portion of the territory, or without the consent of the Indians to pass through the same" (Brown 130).

His first war parties were launched against the Crows, Hohe, Rees, Hidatsa, Mandans, and the Flatheads. His animosity was not against the white, but against ancestral Indian enemies. He never attacked the white settlements. All that he asked was that the rights that had been given to the Indians be kept. Through the treaties that the government had made (Vestal 97).

Another side of Sitting Bull's character had been displayed when he spared the life of an Assiniboine Indian. He makes this eleven-year-old boy his blood brother. He gave him his fathers' name "Jumping Bull." By this time he had two wives and three children, and his father had been killed during a war party (O'Connor 35-41).

Slow was the very first to count coup during this war party. Coup was the touching or striking the enemy alive or dead. Slow did not kill his enemy he simply knocked him off his horse. When they returned back to camp, Slows father placed him on fine bay, and it was covered from top to toe with the black paint of victory. His father shouted, "My son has struck the enemy!" (Vestal 13) "He is brave! I dub him Tan-tani-ka I-yo-ta-ke, Sitting Bull!" (Vestal 14) Due

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