Sitting Bull (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Stanley Campbell
- First Published: 1932
- Time of Work: 1831–1890
- Setting: Canada, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming
- Principal Characters: Sitting Bull, Big-in-the-Center, Lone Bull, Crazy Horse, Gall, Frank Grouard, Red Tomahawk, James McLaughlin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Midwest, Native Americans or American Indians, War, Captivity, Biography, Frontier or pioneer life, Land settlement, Treaties, Little Big Horn, Battle of
- Locales: Canada, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana
Form and Content
In Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux, Stanley Vestal traces the life of one of the most influential Native Americans from his birth to his death using primary historical sources, mainly interviews with Native Americans related to or acquainted with Sitting Bull. The book covers Sitting Bull’s conflicts with other Native Americans, his rise to the leadership of the Teton, or Western, Sioux, and his role in the tribe’s struggle to preserve its identity and way of life in the face of continual encroachments by whites.
Vestal divides his...
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