(Tatanka Yotanka; in English, Sitting Bull; Grand River., 1834 - Fort Yates, id., 1890) Hunkpapa Lakota leader. As a young man he was part of the akicita (secret society) Brave Hearts, and gained fame for his deeds, which made him one of the most important Lakota leaders, strong defender of the ancient customs during the struggle of his people against American colonialism.
Sitting Bull formed cross-tribal alliances in his efforts to resist the process of colonization. Sitting Bull also steadfastly refused to become dependent on aid from the U.S. government.
On June 25th, 1876, Colonel Custer and his forces were wiped out at the battle of Little Big Horn. Sitting Bull did not take part in the battle, but acted as a kind of spiritual leader to those who did, performing the Sun Dance, in which he fasted and sacrificed over 100 pieces of flesh from his arms, a week prior.
In response, the U.S. government sent thousands more soldiers to the area, forcing many of the Lakota to surrender over the next year. Sitting Bull refused to surrender, and in May 1877, he led his band north to Wood Mountain, North-West Territories (now Saskatchewan). He remained there until 1881, when he and most of his band returned to U.S. territory and surrendered to U.S. forces.
In 1890, due to fears that Sitting Bull would use his influence to support the Ghost Dance movement (a movement of indigenous resistance), Indian Service agent James McLaughlin ordered his arrest. Early in the morning of December 15th, 39 police officers and four volunteers approached Sitting Bull's house. The camp awakened and men began to converge at the scene.
When Sitting Bull refused to comply, the police used force on him, enraging members of the village. Catch-the-Bear, a Lakota, shouldered his rifle and shot one of the Indian agents, who reacted by firing his revolver into the chest of Sitting Bull, killing him.
In 1953, his Lakota family exhumed what were believed to be his remains, reburying them near Mobridge, South Dakota, near his birthplace.
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I’m so fucking tired. Saw a dumb meme which led me to discover mass suburb development (coupled with pesticides, raking, lawn treatment and the like) is disrupting natural ecosystems and killing insects en masse
Just the effects of climate change becomingly blatantly obvious I suppose. A friend of mine who studied and wrote research about biology in undergrad once told me that humans exacerbate the cycles of the systems that they partake in. If I understand her correctly, I think that would say something about why all of these changes to the natural world seem so drastic and sudden.
I’m a dumbass but could our impact be almost exponential in a sense and thus produce results in decades that previously wouldn’t have been possible for millennia?
sometimes I wish I could cry hard enough to erase the world
what gets me is they're STILL DOING IT. if we stopped all that nonsense tomorrow we'd have a hell of a job ahead of us.
but knowing all that we do, these fuckers are still cracking open the earth, rolling up the soil and killing the land. building increasingly dysfunctional and cut-cornered "communities" atop it.
And you know what’s even worse? For some reason, the people who care about this stuff are often seen as “dreamers” or “naive.”
We’re not talking about solving world hunger or world peace here, we’re asking for the fucking bare minimum and even that’s somehow too much.
I think there's been a very real PR war to dismiss all environmental activism as crazy hippies obsessing about owls (There was a huge fight in I think the 90s between loggers who wanted to clear cut a forest in the pac northwest and activists who didn't want that. Some species of endangered owl becamet he focal point and was used to mock environmentalists).
Oh. Yeah. Uhh. Sorry. Finding out about that sucks.
Also, the world population was like 2 billion about 70-80 years ago and people owned far less stuff. Now it's like 8 billion or so and we make a lot more stuff. We pretty much literally gained too many abilities and technologies too fast to learn how to use them responsibly, even without evil cartoon villains going "yes, we will deliberately lie to the public about pesticide/lead/global warming/everything".
It all happened real real fast. We've only had steam engines for like 300 years, cars for like 120, planes for a century, plastics for like 70ish years. Conditions were right for technological inventions and manufacturing processes to compound on themselves, we figured out how to make industrial amounts of nitrogen for explosives then convert it in to fertilizer, genetics lead to better crop yields, medicine meant more people lived longer, and everyone has stuff and needs to live somewhere and so forth. Stability in nature isn't really a thing, it just seems like that from some perspectives. And what we're doing is exploiting new resources and habitats very rapidly, much more rapidly than any other species ever has, bc we've got culture and language and technology and thumbs. But we've only been doing it for a few hundred years and we haven't figured out how to do it sustainably yet.