Sitting Bull by Josée Meunier (2009)

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Description ORIGINAL ARTWORK AVAILABLE FOR SALE.Acrylics on stretched canvas, 16 x 20 inches.Initialed front, dated, titled and signed on back.Part of the 'Hidden Face of America' collection.Chief Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tatka yotake) was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, born in 1831, South Dakota. He is well known throughout American and Native American history for his role in the major victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. In 1877, the new American military forces pursued the Lakotas, forcing many to surrender. Sitting Bull refused and led his band across the border into Saskatchewan, Canada where he remained in exile for many years. Hunger and cold eventually forced him and his band to return to the USA and surrender in 1881. He was killed in 1890 by Indian agency police during an attempt to arrest and prevent him from supporting the Ghost Dance movement. The slaughter of Sioux prisoners at Wounded Knee, declined of that event, and is generally considered to be the end of the Indian Wars.I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place - Sitting Bull'Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.' - Sitting Bull

Josée Meunier, Gatineau, Quebec
Member Since October 2009
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