Sitting Bull descended from the bluffs onto the plains in full view of the soldiers.
According to his nephew, White Bull, “Sitting Bull lay down his gun and quiver,
carrying only his long narrow tobacco-pouch, with a pipestem protruding from its
mouth, walked coolly out in front of the Indian line … sat down on the grass a
hundred yards in front of the Indian line, right on the open prairie, in plain sight of
the firing soldiers, … There he got out his flint and steel, struck fire, lighted his
pipe, and began to puff away in his usual leisurely fashion.
According to his nephew, White Bull, “Sitting Bull lay down his gun and quiver,
carrying only his long narrow tobacco-pouch, with a pipestem protruding from its
mouth, walked coolly out in front of the Indian line … sat down on the grass a
hundred yards in front of the Indian line, right on the open prairie, in plain sight of
the firing soldiers, … There he got out his flint and steel, struck fire, lighted his
pipe, and began to puff away in his usual leisurely fashion.
Vestal, Stanley, Warpath p. 141
Sitting Bull, 1884, First People
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