The Sitting Bull t-shirt is a nod to everything that the Great Teton Dokata chief embodied. He was a hunter, leader, teacher, warrior, medicine man, but most importantly, a lover of his people. Sitting Bull united the Sioux tribes of the American Great Plains against settlers and U.S. government taking their tribal lands. The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty granted the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota to the Sioux, but when gold was discovered there in 1874, the U.S. government ignored the treaty (of course they did) and began to remove native tribes from their land by force.
The ensuing Great Sioux Wars culminated in the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, when Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse led united tribes to victory against General George Armstrong Custer. Sitting Bull was shot and killed by Indian police officers on Standing Rock Indian Reservation in 1890, but is remembered for his courage in defending native lands.
Our current culture is in desperate need of men like Sitting Bull. Find your tribe and fight for them.John 15:13 says, "Greater love has no one than this; to lay down one's life for one's friends.
"I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my Tribe to surrender my rifle.” -Sitting Bull (1831-1890)
