An inspiring picture book biography of the Lakota/Sioux warrior and
chief Sitting Bull, from award-winning author and illustrator S. D.
Nelson
Sitting Bull (c. 1831-1890) was one of the greatest Lakota/Sioux
warriors and chiefs who ever lived. He was eventually named war chief,
leader of the entire Sioux nation--a title never before bestowed on
anyone. As a leader, Sitting Bull resisted the United States
government's attempt to move the Lakota/Sioux to reservations for more
than twenty-five years.
From Sitting Bull's childhood--killing his first buffalo at age ten--to
being named war chief, to leading his people against the U.S. Army, and
to his surrender, Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His
People brings the story of the great chief to light. Sitting Bull was
instrumental in the war against the invasive wasichus (White Man) and
was at the forefront of the combat, including the Battles of Killdeer
Mountain and the Little Bighorn. He and Crazy Horse were the last
Lakota/Sioux to surrender their people to the U.S. government and resort
to living on a reservation.
Award-winning author and member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe S. D.
Nelson intersperses archival images with his own artwork, inspired by
the ledger-art drawings of the nineteenth-century Lakota. Through the
art and riveting story, Nelson conveys how Sitting Bull clung to his
belief that the Lakota were a free people meant to live, hunt, and die
on the Great Plains.
