Tatanka Iyotake wokiksuye Dec. 15, 1890. We give remembrance today to Sitting Bull who was assassinated on this day in 1890.

Since his death, Tatanka Iyotake has become a symbol of resistance and freedom for not just the Lakota, but for other Indigenous peoples and oppressed communities around the world. He is remembered not just for his military victories over the colonial settler state, the United States, but also for his fierce rejection to accept, whether through force or assimilation, the ways of the wasicu (fat takers). He understood freedom. Not the false sense of freedom that exists by the now larger general public, but freedom in its truest most natural sense.

“The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food that is as good as the right to move in the open country, and live in our own fashion.” Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull)

Via Matt Remle