The Murder of Sitting Bull - Native American History - Part 4 - Extra History
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We delve into the final chapter of Sitting Bull's life, exploring his return from exile in Canada, his surprising reception in American cities, and his unexpected role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Despite his legendary status, Sitting Bull's aspirations to meet President Grover Cleveland are met with disappointment, leading him back to Standing Rock where he encounters the burgeoning Ghost Dance movement. As tensions escalate, Sitting Bull's involvement in the dance ultimately leads to a tragic confrontation with authorities, marking the poignant end of a remarkable legacy.
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I've been waiting for this all week!! I can't even hold in my excitement while watching this all the way through ❤️
Best channel I've ever seen
Dang, this sponsor reel really felt out of place
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Dang, Sitting Bull’s life needs a historically accurate, Lakota-focused blockbuster movie.
100%!
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If it was sold as a historical, then it could work. I doubt it can be sold as an action movie or anything.
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Do you have ANY idea what the modern, DEI driven Hollywood would do to that story? Better chance having a faithful story told by a Korean movie. Sad thing is that I am not kidding.
The story of Sitting Bull helping the poor people he met was very touching.
Yeah. Cities suck.
@@the-Albino-RhinoI love how the Lakota valued generosity!
*Thatahanka Iyotake
@@LangThoughtshow is this pronounced ?
Ah yes... "Generous"
Just kinda forgetting the fact that they were also slavers.
Is this the new "Mongolians were multicultural" fad, forgetting their atrocities?
As an American im genuinely pissed he didn’t get a better end. Like how can a titan of our people be denied an end as grand as his legacy?
You should read about Ira Hayes. One of the original Flag Raisers on Iwo Jima. His death was not worthy of his deeds or life...
Most people in history get ignoble ends. He's no different.
It's not uncommon. He's still just a person just like everyone else
That’s true of most people. Many dictators live long and happy lives and many good people get killed. Heck just look at Jesus if ya want another good example of this.
@Valhain at least none other than Johnny Cash tried to correct that error
I love how Sitting Bull talks with his hands when speaking Italian. Nice little blink and you miss it bit.
I had to go back and make sure I saw that correctly XD
*Thathanka Iyotake
That last transition to factor felt so awkward….
Love that y‘all are doing this series and very cool that factor is sponsoring it but still…
I fully agree, I don't mind the sponsership or the sponsor butt that transition was a bitt untasteful in my opinion and could have been handled better
@@GadonStarcrosshonestly, I would have preferred if they just admitted there was no good way to segue from that, and then go on with "so, anyway, Factor ..."
The way it was done felt a little distasteful imo
Hey all,
We totally hear you that this transition from the episode to the sponsorship felt jarring. Sometimes it’s really hard to get the tone right, and occasionally what sounds good to us doesn’t come across the way we intended. As always, thank you for the kind and thoughtful feedback, and we’ll take it to heart moving forward.
-Matt
@@extrahistoryhonestly, it was probably the best transition possible. Perhaps it could’ve fit more if the last segment explained the slightly improved treatment of natives as to be hopeful and more uplifting
@@extrahistoryA quick suggestion; for stories with such strong endings, perhaps consider putting the sponsor at the beginning of the segment, that way we have a great ending. I agree with the others, not the best sponsorship transition, but still love the work you guys do. :)
I wish you could've gone more in depth about the ghost dance, and how it operated. I find it as fascinating movement, but one that isn't talked about or completely remembered.
I think part of that is purposeful the government suppressing it at the time and remaining adherents not wanting outsiders to know too much about the specifics to avoid non Natives appropriating the practice.
Extra History, like many channels, brings attention to topics and allows viewers to decide how invested they would like to be. For the people who want to know more about the ghost dance, they know of its existence now and can look it up at their leisure.
It also fits the theme of Sitting Bull's religion: one that relies on individual interpretation. By leaving it to the viewer to look up and learn about, the viewer is set to individually determine their own thoughts on the ghost dance.
@@justinalicea1590 Plus, it would probably take an entire episode to properly explain it.
I think an episode about the Ghost Dance would be better for a series focused on the massacre at Wounded Knee (which I'm sure they're do some day!)
@@Imperiused Agreed!
Annie Oakley's father died when she was 6. The cigarette shooting trick was done with her husband, Frank Butler.
And my personal favorite the time she did this trick with Kieser Wilhiem 2in off and who knows how the world would have changed.
Once again an amazing series
The story at the end of the second episode especially stuck with me, the one with the pipe
_However how do you go from the absolutely heart wrenching death of the man to a sponsor segment while talking about how it emotionally effected you-_
It seriously downplays the seriousness of the topic
Astoundingly scummy behavior of him, yeah.
Yes.
I have had great respect for what this channel is and what it does.
A lot less so after this!
I have watched more episodes of Extra History than I can count. This is the first one to truly break me. I cried so hard at the end I had to leave and come back to type this. How can humanity include such greatness, and at the same time such awfulness. May his memory never die.
Keep watching until he breathlessly transitions from reflecting on Sitting Bull's murder and its emotional impact to him using it as cheap fodder for his sponsorship.
Oh boy, if this one messed you up, definitely don't watch their series on Suleiman the Magnificent.
Could have used a pause between the end of a great mans life and your segway in to a sponsor.
That being said: You guys are doing everyone a great service, by making history accesable to lots of people. I've watched your stuff for about 7 years.
I'd recomend a movie called "bury my heart at wounded knee" as an Indigenous person ( although I am from Canada) . It's not entirely a "True documentary" I'd say, but it does a good showcase of the times of that era , and is a heart wrencher to watch for sure .
That segue between Sitting Bull's death and pushing meal plans was one of the most shameless things I have seen on UA-cam.
They definitely should have opened the video with the ad instead this time, felt tasteless
Eh, I’ve seen worse on the site
Lmao that was the most tasteless transition into a sponsor ad I've ever seen.
Yup! Aggressively inappropriate
Yesterday on Spanish TV, the news transitioned seamlessly from the 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid to an advert. They finish a sentence about the 193 dead, and right away they put music and start a new sentence about the product. It was only slightly worse than this video.
Idk, Legal Eagle has had some strong contenders ever since he started plugging his own legal services in the middle of videos.
I miss the days when there was music in the end. Put the add in the middle in a suitable spot please.
Yeah. Absolutely agree. This was an absolutely egregious sponsor transition.
Do better, Extra History.
Fun fact: Sitting Bull (or Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake as he's called in the Lakota language) is among the (maybe the) most photographed person of that era.
Even more than Queen Victoria?
Wow!
While he's up there it's actually Fredrick Douglas it be cool if the two met both being symbols of freedom for their people.
Oh yeah, they were icons!
*Thathanka Iyotake
That’s whiplash from sitting Bull being killed to an ad is NFL level
Talk about ruining a strong ending to a series with the shittiest sponsor bit ever
Yes, after such a moving story, that was shockingly crass.
If I were Factor I would be reconsidering this sponsorship.
It was so shocking, felt like the they shot him over again said "yeah whatever"
Was really distasteful
Very much agree with this. Pretty ironic.
definitely could have used a few rewrites for that transition. It was positively ghoulish whiplash
Holy crap, the frame of Sitting Bull talking with his hands for him speaking Italian was perfect.
JFC you had me with the end of the story but to segway right into the sponsor was fucking gross.
It destroys any kind of emotion that was built up during the ending segment
Sitting Bull has been one of my favorite characters in history and you guys did an awesome job telling his tale, thank you for your hard work.
*Thathanka Iyotake
"The end of this story hit me like a truck. But do you know what lifted my spirits? .... MONEY!!! So try the food from our sponsor..."
-literally the narrator at the end of the video
Thanks for taking advantage of an emotional moment to talk about a sponsor. What’s the difference between you and the Wild West Show exploiting Sitting Bull?
Hey they need to eat too
Could you do a video about Canadian Residential schools , I know that your channel has already done a video about residential schools but I want to see if you could do a deeper dive into the history behind them especially in Canada. I am from Ontario and in my high school, the topic of Residential schools was briefly talked about and I am always wanting to know more about one of the darkest moments in Canadian history.
Extra History mentions them in "Kill the Indian, Save the Man". Although subtitiled "US History", it also touches on similar institutions north of the border.
I think there’s hope because although native Americans are still suffering many hardships and arguably dwindling, native Americans are still here and alive carrying their ancestors legacy and traditions despite the US government’s many attempts to destroy their culture in the past centuries and because of that I think that the native Americans will be able to rise again in terms of population in the future or survive. So even though Siting Bull’s story and others ended sadly, that doesn’t mean that the Lakota and other Native Americans tribes stories will end sadly too because their stories are far from over.
They're delegated to novelty, living on reservations... singing folk songs, doing rain dance while wearing traditional clothing is the only way megalomaniac empires allow Natives to live, it's the same story with Uyghurs in China or most Caucasus nations colonized by russians. Do you really think Native Americans care about reenacting traditions more than actually owning their own land? Only real reason USA gets little call to return it now is because their opponents are objectively worse, only because civil rights activism had so much blood shed in centuries and got progress, while Chinese, Iranian and russian imperialism is near its peak, and there's no pushback from inside.
This was an absolutely beautiful series, and I will forever be thankful to the Extra History team for bringing a truely non-bias point of view to our side of history.
Absolutely loved this series! I used to work on pre-Civil War archaeology sites in Colorado.
2:50 that Italian image sent me 😂
Me to
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
So true💀
History is so important, but sometimes it is the hardest thing to sit and read through. Thank you EH for always teaching us these wonderful stories. They are painful, but necessary so we don't make the same mistakes.
In less than 1 minute this episode goes from massacres of Native Americans and Sitting Bull's murder to a Factor sponsorship.
I love learning about sitting bull, because my family was from the same tribe as him and I would love to learn more about my tribe
I have heard about Sitting Bull but I never knew his whole story. I really enjoyed this series about him. ❤
You mention Sitting Bulls people the Hunkpapa who fled joined Cheyenne fleeing to Pine Ridge.
The group they joined was the Mnicouju one of the 4 bands of Lakota that today make up the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe not the Cheyenne Tribe.
As a member of this tribe it was a little sad that you didnt catch this as it is a mistake alot of people make.
Sorry
Hopefully it'll end up in their "lies of..." episode. I am curious, how is he viewed today and is he taught much in school?
Thank you for making a video about him. I wish more people talked about native american heroes. Most of the history and story of native americans have been forgotten and not talked to or taught anymore.
Nothing could have prepared me for that ending. Thank you so much for making this series!
personally think the ad placement in this video was quite cheekily executed
That's not cheeky, that's in poor taste 😅
2:49 speaking italian straight out of Italy.
The worst part of this series is realizing that the underlying mentality that brought all this condescending massacre is still alive among US citizens and government.
That segue into Factor was tacky as hell
"It turned an act of conquest into an act of charity." A play America keeps practicing to this day...
That was a great series but I don't know about that sponsor segway, it might have been better to have the sponsor at the start. Just felt like a very weird transition there.
Should I recommend this channel to my history teacher?
Edit: it’s been 9 hrs and 95 likes 💀
Yes
Yes
Yes pls😊
YESSSS
Abso-god-damn-lutely.
I might be stirring a hornet's nest, but events like these are why at its core, diversity and awareness is needed in the US. Because by god, there was true, genuine racism and bigotry in its history. People need to know their history.
using tragedy to segway into a sponsor spot feels kinda gross ngl
I get why they gotta do it, but it definitely had an off vibe.
*segue. Yes, it was very tacky.
Y’all should do a series on the Siege of Leningrad.
Ending it with "...and all those poor soldiers would be better off if they ordered food from our sponsor-" I presume.
loved the story . . . felt the transition into sponsor was in poor taste.
I believe the Medals of Honor handed out after Wounded Knee Massacre, all 19, should be stricken from the records of those honored.
Agreed.
Lovin learning more history from this channel!
I notice that you refer to Annie Oakley as a trickshooter. She was opposed to that term since men usually was referred as ”marksmens” and she didn’t like the distinction.
What is fascinating about the Ghost Dance, is that it's essentially one of the christian doomsday sects that emerged in the mid-late 19th century (IE; Jehovas Witnesses, 7th Day Adventists, etc) - believing that not only would the land return and the Europeans be gone, but that it would coincide with the return of christ
The Syncretism of a lot of the native religions under American expansion is just really interesting to me, and often gets kind of overlooked when covering the history more broadly. There's just something interesting about how even their resistance to European expansion had by this point become so intertwined with European ideas
When enough of you are forced to practice the faith at the expense of your own, it happens a lot. Also see voudoun and other Afrodiasporan traditions.
Yeah, I've watched a documentary that had Aztec human sacrifice woven into Christian mythology with Spanish priests taking part in sacrificing little girls "for Jesus", it was creepy! There's a reason Abrahamic religions go so hard against syncretism. Like okay, Sitting Bull damaged his eyes permanently by doing a ritual... did it help? Nope.
I will never forgive the American education system for not teaching me about Sitting Bull.
Maybe open with the Factor ad next time, because the transition from the ending to the spot was really rough. Massive tonal and emotional undercut of the story you just told.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
This series is fascinating, always loved this channel!
That Factor sponsor tear-in was not tactful and it was ignoble. Don't get me wrong I know you have employees to pay, operations to run and maintain, and family to support. I'm definitely NOT against that at all. But at least try and incorporate sponsorships at better time executions. A sorta read the read-the-room type of thing.
Yeah, masterful speakers, usually leave quietly after serious or heavy topics, it’s a learning lesson for Matt to sometimes advertise in the beginning if it’s a strong ending
This was a great series. Sitting Bull was an amazing person and his death was really tragic.
What our people did to the Lakota and all other native nations was evil, we should all be ashamed of our ancestors actions and the actions of those today that still commit and perpetuate these same evils that even go on today!!!
That transition from Sitting Bull's death to an ad was so hilariously awkward I'm surprised it didn't come from Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards
My only problem with this recounting is at his death.
It was two officers that shot and killed him, yes. However, looking at the sheer number of officers drafted for this... Sitting Bull was not meant to leave in anything but a pine box. To quote Robert M. Utley's "The Last Days of the Sioux Nation",
"Around 5:30 a.m. on December 15, 39 police officers and four volunteers approached Sitting Bull's house. They surrounded the house, knocked, and entered. Bull Head told Sitting Bull that he was under arrest and led him outside."
I'm sorry, nearly 40 police officers? For one man? Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.
In middle school in France, my English teacher chose one trimester of the 9th grade teach us about native Americans and have us do presentations. As a pacifist from a young age I couldn’t relate to many of the warrior archetypes of the great native leaders (while understanding the legitimacy of their cause and tactics- they couldn’t afford to be pacifists). So I asked my teacher if I could do a presentation on a shaman/medecin man instead and he recommended me reading up on Wovoka- the supposed creator of the Ghost dance. He’s a complex and fascinating figure, caught between the vanishing of his lifestyle and his fervent belief of a return to a pre colonial state of America. At the time I didn’t completely understand it’s implications, but the character stayed with me, so much that later in art school I created an artwork on his dance, the disappearance of the buffalo and the spirits of the ancestors he invoked. There’s also a tragically beautiful song by the Native American band Redbone called Wovoka- I recommend it if anyone has an interest.
I’d love to share it with you but don’t really know how. If you’re interested in it, I’d love to send it to you, even though it’s only partially related to Sitting bulls story.
Thank you for this important series, we need more education on Native American history and the disaster on world cultures and peoples that has been western colonialism.
This ad read really made me grimace, broke my neck with the tone whiplash.
This is awesome! Thank you so much for telling this story!
Great series about Sitting Bull but yall that ending was very cheap in my opinion. Definitely agree this shouldve been either in the beginning of the episode. I hope this was just a mistake and not actually out of malice. Man's gotta eat but still... dont rob the importance of a mans life like that
Sitting Bull shall forever be remembered! Little Bighorn!!!
Best part: Sitting Bull speaking Italian like a bonafide Italian 🤌🏽🤌🏽
That ending saying ur sponsor made u feel better after the tragic death of sitting bull was possibly the most disrespectful thing I have ever heard. Are these topics that much of a joke to u.
Sponsors ruin everything
They are definitely addressing this in lies
What if they are
Lately, it feels like the end of every UA-cam video is a clever segue into a PBS telethon.
Sounds like he got the same treatment as Hannibal after the Second Punic War; Rome elevated Hannibal into a legend so they could better grapple with the fact that a barbarian had bested them so many times.
Doesn't discount the fact that he humilated them at the battle of Cannae
Hannibal wasn't a "barbarian". Carthage was as great a city power and civilisation as Rome was at that time - in fact it had been a significant power in the region for longer than Rome. You're confusing him with the Gauls who attacked Rome.
100% wrong. Hannibal was from a nation just as civilized as Rome, and the Romans treated Carthage as a rival city state, not a bunch of Gauls and Visigoths. They never considered Hannibal a barbarian.
@@MariaVosa Barbarian meant someone who didn't speak your language, not uncivilized. To the Romans, the Greeks, Egyptians, and Persians were as barbarian as the Celts, the Germanic tribes, and the Picts.
@@blockmasterscott Barbarian meant someone who didn't speak your language, not uncivilized. To the Romans, the Greeks, Egyptians, and Persians were as barbarian as the Celts, the Germanic tribes, and the Picts. The Romans regarded all non-Romans as barbarians, no matter how "civilized" we would think of them today.
Amazing series, especially sad is then ending of sitting bull, however I have too criticize the product placement. It felt really out of place and exploitative for the sad ending of this impressive individual to be comericalised like that...
Thankyou for all the videos
Wonderful as always...
I would love to see a series on Trieu Au, she was something special.
Mind giving a short couple sentences of her?
@@charliefarmer4365 Trieu Au was an Anamese general. Often called Lady Trieu, she gave the Chinese quite a few headaches during their third century conquest period
@@chuckiieternal ooh, that's interesting!
People love the history but refuse to learn our ways😢
Wow, what a transition to the ad
This series was incredible! 😊
Please do the Greek war of independence of 1821 against the ottoman empire next
I've been asking for this since the first episodes of the sengoku Jidai!
a man worth remembering not just for what he did but what he stood for
Can you plz have an episode dedicated to the Lakota pipeline incident🙏
Thank you for inspiring mat pat
This is a great series
thank you
Bro, give this man a movie
Italian Sitting Bull 😂😂😂
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2:19
Walpole. Of course he's involved.
My great grandfather on my dad's side met Sitting Bull when he came to England. They shook hands, apparently.
As Americans, we still have a lot of our own history to come to terms with, and to resolve in favour of the abused victims of history.
good to hear native topics on EH. been LACKING these stories in my binges of EH. wish there was more ojibwe stories to tell ;-;
I recall a text that claimed some native American chief was scheduled to give a speech in some kind of show, in his native language, that would be translated for the crowd. Come the speech and the chief starts talking away, except he did not follow the prepared text, instead saying some very unkind (but probably accurate) things about whites. But the translation was unchanged and the crowd had no clue the chief was telling them off. Makes a good story anyway.
This story is apparently true, and it was about Sitting Bull. I read about it in the book Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill by Deanne Stillman. When I read about this episode, at first I thought it showed how bitter Sitting Bull was, but then when I reread the passage, it seemed to me that Sitting Bull was being cheeky more than bitter.
Will you do a complementary one on Wounded Knee?
Should have done without the sponsor outro on this one.
Anyone else find the posture change for Sitting Bull when he “spoke Italian,” hilarious?
Chief Seattle and Sitting bull deserve movies of their own .
I really hoped for a better end for Sitting bull , the man who gave his life protecting the Lakotas killed by one of his own kind.
As does Chief joseph
Great episode
understand the need for sponsors but it feels like you could have made the transition a little more respectful of the topic.
otherwise a gripping series about a time that always tears at my heart when I hear and read about it.
Love your work guys! Thanks For this amazing series 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
Therapist: Italian Sitting Bull isn't real, he can't hurt you.
Italian Sitting Bull: 2:49
Does the sponsorship transition to anyone else feel a little... Yknow, tactless?
Yeah. I almost thought it was going to be an actual emotional moment from him and then I was immediately bamboozled, jfc.
Definitely could've been handled better
I mean, how exactly were they supposed to handle it? Any sponsor addition here would feel either tasteless or abrupt. But these sponsors are what allow them to make these videos.
The disrespect is pungent
@@andrilgowdhaman9676A screen wipe or cut to an actual sponsorship intro that doesn't use the actual end of the video's content and its emotional impact as a crass segue into an ad, for starters.
this is honestly really good, i wanna see King Philip's war next!
Bro told me about a significant Native American leader being wrongfully ended and his people wrongfully slaughtered just to advertise food to me
Id like to echo the sentiment that the segway toward the factor sponsership was in poor taste and also add that it sounds very ingeniune:
"This tragic story of a resistant native hero gunned by policemen is tragic but thank God i have the meal service that sponsered this video to cheer me up"
No offence to factor,but i doubt their food delivery service can mend the bad vibes of An emotionally gutwrenching tale.
Not gonna lie, that transition into Factor was just gross. This has been one of your best EH series of the last several years, with the art, emotional weight and narrative working beautifully with a fantastic ending...that was spoiled by a sponsor bit. Please allow the man a full stop, not a comma or semi-colon, before you start hocking the crass commercialism that so shocked Sitting Bull on his visits to the east coast.
Great series on a a great man!
amazing! Amazing! Your channel & content is AMAZING!