Red Tomahawk, Sitting Bull's Assassin

Red Tomahawk, Sitting Bull's assassin, lived in a time of rapid change for the Lakota-Dakota people. He did the only thing that he believed he could, serve as a police officer and put his warrior days behind him. He is most often remembered for killing Sitting Bull. Here's his story.

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[nixart7]

Banning a dance??? would a dance not be protected by the 1st ammendment??? did it actually exsist back then?? .God bless America!

[FortAbrahamLincoln]

The U.S. of A. could certainly ban native dances and/or other celebrations because Native Americans were not citizens of the states. Citizenship didn't happen until the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924; the right for Native Americans to practice their indigenous religious practices wasn't protected and guaranteed until the Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978. Thanks for watching! Subscribe and tell others!

[chuckluna]

Chuck Luna -Tennessee -United States Of America. To my Country The U.S.A. Please give the Black Hills back to its original owners,this place is so sacred we know it does not belong to us and we know in our hearts who the rightfull owners are. God bless us all !

[strikefire02]

i hate that sick guy why would he kill part of my genaration

[wheelzwheela]

Wow.. there is more information and more UNBIAS information here than in most documentaries that only paint Whites as evil, bloodthirsty demons. Very informative thanks!

[jagerfaust2009]

WOW

How interesting was that!!!!

Until now I would never have known this history of Red Tomahawk....

My only understanding was a 'betrayal' through watching many documentaries of Sitting Bull and Indians etc. None of what is presented here have I ever seen or been told about, from the 'other side of the coin' so to speak.

This was done very well. thanks...

jager.....

[FortAbrahamLincoln]

I removed some of your comments because of your explicit language. Please keep it civil and courteous.

[jjjkkknnnmmmn]

HERE'S HOW the sioux robbed the black hills now they bellyache about usa doing same to them as they did to other indian tribes Now usa gave them money that has grown to be worth 1,000,000,000

American Indians have inhabited the area since at least 7000 BC The Arikara arrived by 1500 AD, followed by the Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa and Pawnee. The Lakota arrived from Minnesota in the eighteenth century and drove out the other tribes, claiming the land, which they called HeSapa, for themselves

[jjjkkknnnmmmn]

In 1710, the Sioux annihilated the Wicosawan, an American Indian tribe that no longer exists on the Great Plains. This info is found in the John K. Bear Winter Count. The Bear Winter Count was published in the Plains Anthropologist Memoir 16, in 1976, by James A. Howard, an ethnohistorian.

[jjjkkknnnmmmn]

On August, 5, 1873 in Nebraska near the Republican river 1,000 to 1,500 Lakota Sioux warriors attacked a Pawnee Indian Buffalo hunting party numbering between 400 and 700 people many of which were women and children.

In the ensuing rout somewhere between 70 and 120 Pawnees were killed mostly women and children.