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SITKOEDI SITTING BULL 



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Schltka.—Holmberg.Ethnol.Skizz., map, 142, 1855. 

 Schitka-kon. — Kraiise, Tlinkit Ind., 118, 1885. 

 Schitkhakhoan.— Ibid., 11. Seethenskie.— Elliott, 

 Oond. Atl". Alaska, 227, 1875 (transliterated from 

 Veniaminoff). Sitca.— Latham in .lour. Etluiol. 

 Soc. Lund., I, 163, 1848. Sitcha. — Holmberg, 

 Ethnol. Skizz., map, 142, 1855. Sitka-kwan.— Dall 

 in Proc. A. A. A. S. 1869, 269, 1870. Sitka-qwan.— 

 Emmons in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., in, 232, 

 1903. Sitkas.— Colyer in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1869, 572, 

 1870. Sitkhinskoe.— Veniaminoff, Zapiski, ii, pt. 

 Ill, 30, 1840. 



Sitkoedi {SUtqoe^dt, 'people of Sitko'). 

 A division of the Tlingit at Sumdum, 

 Alaska, of the Wolf phratry. (,t. r. s. ) 



Sitlintaj. A former rancheria con- 

 nected with Dolores mission, San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 

 18, 1861. 



Sitnazuak. A village of the Kaviagmint 

 Eskimo w. of C. Nome, Alaska; pop. 20 in 

 1880. 



Chitashuak. — Jackson in Rep. Bur. of Ed., map, 

 1894. Chitnashuak.— Petroff in 10th Census, 

 Alaska, 11, 1884. 



Sitolo. A former Chumashan village 

 near Purisima mission, Santa Barbara 

 CO., Cal. 



Sautatho.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 

 Sitolo.— Ibid. 



Sitsime. Said to be the name applied 

 to themselves by the inhabitants of the 

 Keresan (Queres) pueblos of Acoma and 

 Laguna (q. v.), with their outlying vil- 

 lages, w. central N. Mexico. Thelanguage 

 of these pueblos differs slightly in dialect 

 from that of the Rio Grande Queres, as 

 well as from each other. 

 Kan-ayko.— Loew (1876) in Wheeler Surv. Rep., 

 VII, 345, 1S79 (misprint 71 for u; cf. Laguna). 

 Kawaiko.— Ibid. ,418. Sis-stsi-me.— Ibid., 345. Si- 

 stsi-me. — Loew in Ann. Rep. Wheeler Surv., app. 

 LL., 178, 1875. Sitsime. — Loew in Wheeler Surv. 

 Rep., VII, 418, 1879. Tse-mo-e.— Ibid., 339 (another 

 form). 



Sits-in-the-Middle. See Many Horses^. 



Sitting Bull (Tata"ka Yota"ka, 'sitting 

 buffalo bull'). A noted Sioux warrior 

 and tribal leader of the Hunkpapa Teton 

 division, born on Grand r., S. Dak., in 

 183-1, his father being Sitting Bull, alias 

 Four Horns, a subchief. As a boy he 

 was first known as Jumping Badger. He 

 manifested hunting ability when but 10 

 years of age, in the pursuit of buffalo 

 calves. When he was 14 he accom- 

 panied his father on the warpath against 

 the Crows and counted his first coup on 

 the body of a fallen enemy. On the 

 return of the party his father made a 

 feast, gave away many horses, and an- 

 nounced that his son had won the right 

 to be known henceforth by his own name. 

 According to the native interpretation of a 

 Dakota winter count his name was Four 

 Horn, and was changed to Sitting Bull 

 when he "made medicine "in 1857. The 

 name is quite common among the Plains 

 tribes. He rapidly acquired influence in 

 his own band , being especially skilful in the 

 character of peacemaker. He took an 

 active part in the Plains wars of the '60' s, 

 and first became widely known to the 



whites in 1866, when he led a memorable 

 raid against Ft Buford. Sitting Bull was 

 on the warpath with his band of follow- 

 ers from various tribes almost continu- 

 ously from 1869 to 1876, either raid- 

 ing the frontier posts or making war 

 on the Crows or the Shoshoni, espe- 

 cially the former. His autograj)hic 

 pictorial record in the Army Medical Mur 

 seum at Washington refers chiefly to con- 

 tests with the Crows and to horse stealing. 



SITTING BULL 



His refusal to go upon a reservation in 

 1876 led Gen. Sheridan to begin against 

 him and his followers the campaign which 

 resulted in the surprise and annihilation 

 of Custer's troop on Little Bighorn r., 

 Mont., in June. During this battle, in 

 which 2,500 to 3,000 Indian warriors were 

 engaged. Sitting Bull was in the hills 

 "making medicine," and his accurate 

 foretelling of the battle enal)led him "to 

 come out of the affair with higher honor 

 than he possessed when he went into it" 

 (McLaughlin). After this fight the hos- 

 tiles separated into two parties. Sitting 

 Bull, in command of the western party, 

 was attacked by Gen. Miles and routed; 

 a large number of his followers sur- 

 rendered, but the remainder of the band, 

 including Sitting Bull himself, escaped to 

 Canada, where they remained until 1881, 

 when he surrendered at Ft Buford under 

 promiseof amnestyandwas confined at Ft 

 Randall until 1883. Although he had sur- 

 rendered and gone upon a reservation, 



