CHIEF OSCEOLA BORN: 1804 DIED: JANUARY 20th, 1838 at 34 years of age. The leader of the Seminole Indians in their second war against the United States was Chief Osceola. He was born in 1804 along the Tallapoosa River in Georgia. When he was 4 years old his family moved to Florida. As a boy… Read more »
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CHIEF REDCLOUD They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it. Red Cloud, or Makhpiya Luta, 1822-1909, head chief of the Oglala Lakota, a Sioux Indian group, for years frustrated efforts of the United States government to open… Read more »
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CHIEF SITTING BULL A Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribes united in their struggle for survival on the northern plains, Sitting Bull remained defiant toward American military power and contemptuous of American promises to the end. Born around 1831 on the Grand River in present-day South Dakota, at a place… Read more »
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There is no other time like now. We should be thankful, for creation did not make weak spirits to live during this time… Humanity must shift from living “on” the earth, to living with her. Tiokasin Ghosthors