Sioux Nations Educational Posters
for the social studies classroom, home schoolers and as theme decor for home and office.

Sitting Bull Poster

Sitting Bull
“What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a [Lakota]; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my people and my country?”
Sitting Bull, 1877

• South Dakota posters

Sitting Bull Great Native American Leaders Art Print

Sitting Bull (c. 1831-1890)

Poster Text: “What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? ... What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux: because I was born where my father lived: because I would die for my people and my country?” Statement

Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux chief and holy man Sitting Bull lead a band of Sioux Indians who resisted all of the U.S. government's attempts to change the way the Sioux traditionally lived. The U.S. government eventually drove Sitting Bull's people out of their homelands around the Black Hills of present-day South Dakota, but not without a fight. In 1876, Sitting Bull's tribe defeated the U.S. government's forces in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, in which Colonel George Armstrong Custer was killed. Sitting Bull's tribe later retreated to Canada. Starving and cold, tribe members surrendered to the U.S. government several years later. Sitting Bull was killed in 1890 when tribal police tried to arrest him at his home on the Standing Rock Reservation.

Red Cloud Poster

Red Cloud Poster
“Men came out and brought papers. We could not read them and they did not tell us what was in them.”
Red Cloud, 1870

• Nebraska posters
• South Dakota posters

Red Cloud Great Native American Leaders Art Print

Red Cloud (1822-1909)

Poster Text: “We were told that they [federal troops] wished merely to pass through our country ... to seek for gold in the Far West. ... Yet before the ashes of the council fire are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. You have heard the sound of the white soldier’s axe upon the Little Piney. His presence here is ... an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be plowed for corn? Dakotas, I am for war.”
Speech at council at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, 1866

Red Cloud was a war leader of the Oglala Sioux. Throughout the 1860s, Red Cloud defended Sioux hunting grounds in present day Montana and Wyoming. the white settlers, with the help of the U.S. government, could not defeat Red Cloud and his warriors. In 1868, the United States agreed to stop building roads through Red Cloud's Sioux territory. Red Cloud is famous for being the only Indian to win a war with the U.S. government.