(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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At a corporate diversity seminar today.
Instructor is an Asian woman who unironically cited Yeonmi Park to say “in North Korea they don’t even have favorite colors. When asked, a defector from there didn’t know and got scared and refused to answer”. Yeonmi Park hates wokeness, and would hate this seminar lol.
Not one mention of Palestine being genocided at all while 50 year old white women talked about how hard their Irish-American upbringing was.
What a fucking joke. An Asian woman lawyer who is trained to detect unconscious bias just regurgitates anti-Asian Korean War propaganda that was used to dehumanize and kill millions of Koreans (the general narrative that Koreans don’t have individuality or personality or favorite colors)
Edit: She's now citing and talking about the Stanford Prison Experiment
Oh God, you know what that means. Somewhere in America someone can't have a favorite color. Where is it? Is there a crying child at some kindergarten? Is it a boy who like pink??