In this video, we read a section from “Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux,” by Raymond Vestal, the pen name of Walter Campbell, and University of Oklahoma English professor who wrote several books on the southwest. In this episode, we hear an account of Fanny Kelly’s captivity from the perspective of Sitting Bull and some of his relatives.
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Fascinating
Thank you! At last Sitting Bull is the true hero! My Great Uncle, & Irish immigrant John Meagher m. Mt. Man Thomas Fitzpatrick's half Arapaho daughter Thomasine, giving me an authentic Indian heritage!
I think it's so interesting how people want to take sides here. I don't think Fanny Kelly was lying, she just didn't understand what was really happening behind the scenes. The stories aren't all that different. I thought her return story seemed a little odd, but this new narrative ties it all together and makes more sense than her version. Whites and Indians were equally cruel, but it was the Indian way of life that was being destroyed to benefit the whites, so clearly their grievance is justified. Telling both sides is important. Truth dies in darkness.
Wow, just incredible. 1st. Sitting Bull was a much more incredible leader than I had realized. And the wisdom and foresight to recognize the future of many Indian tribes. 2nd Bear 🐻 Heart ❤️. Unbelievable.
Another great video!
With different accounts of an event is hard to tell what is the real truth, usually I imagine it is somewhere in the middle
old campbell sounds like a bit of a monday morning quarter back to me , i wonder if he was in kelly's body and shoes if he may have had a bit more compassion for her , i mean after all the cheek of the woman enjoying such a fun filled adventure and then giving her own version
Very good Daryl' apart from the Little Bighorn not heard much about Sitting Bull' thank you regards Darren
Cambell (as most men do; slander women), wanted to take away the heroic stamp of Fanny Kelly. No woman is hailed by the men, whom wants to change history!
I have a BA in early American history and have read extensively, especially about expansion and the Indian wars, but you always find fascinating accounts that are completely new to me. Great retelling sir! Thank you for your work. 🫡 ❤ Semper Fi
We must remember Fanny Kelly was extremely Bias.
Very enlightening, the different ways that captive women were treated is amazing but even for those women who were treated well it still must have been hell.
Thank you! I’ve been really enjoy this series so much so that we’re going to study this in our homeschool. Many blessings to you!
I tend to believe Fanny’s side, she lived it and I don’t care if she misspelled or mangled some names. Obsessing over grammatical discrepancies is a liberals way of discrediting.
I always enjoy your narration of our 'forgotten' past.
I know it was another time, but I hate that we invade others lands and then call the defenders hostile. New subscriber here.
He says her Indian friends but she was not friends with them she was their captive prisoner, this was interesting tho
Yes Daryl! Ludwig
Interesting how accounts differ. Fanny tells what happened to her, from her stand point and the Indians give their accounts, from what happened to them. Vestal gives his account taken from Indians who were not necessarily involved in the events and were only told verbal histories of events. I tend to go along with Fanny who lived it instead of a man who had second and third accounts. History is multi faceted and I prefer to hear the first hand accounts and make up my own mind. I don't need someone else to do that for me.
I'm not even a dog person, but I feel so bad for all of the animals drawn into warfare that they didn't even have, or want anything to do with! The killing of the animals, even cats and dogs, which was apparently done by both American Indians and Whites, is just unconscionable! I can't stop thinking about the whimpering "puppies in their miniature teepees"!!!😲😢
My thoughts are Thanks for Your Work.
I'm not sure about your reading. Sounds as though a little condescension is in your voice.
After following your wonderful account of Fanny Kelly's abduction and the horror she witnessed I am more likely to believe her first hand account despite any errors she may have had not knowing the language. It is always more likely that her written account is more truthful than the "oral history" of those older Indians who were not present. Given the similarities of testimony given by other abductees fortunate enough to have lived through their ordeal I am more inclined to believe Fanny rather than Campbell whose research is scanty at best many years after the event. It still sickens me to think of little Mary Kelly's murder at the hands of those monsters who killed her. There is no justification whatsoever for this malicious act.
I mean..why would Fanny Kelly lie? I’m sure the truth lies somewhere between the two accounts.
Recognizing the era, Fanny’s account was likely romanticized. However, there is absolutely no reason that she be discredited. No doubt she was permanently scarred from her horrible experiences. It is a miracle she lived to tell what happened.
Thank you!
You read too fast
All I can say is Canada did not kill all indians like the USA did but yes they suffered n we have lots in Canada and to me there our people like all Canadians 🇨🇦
We are all free peaple in Canada 🇨🇦 Trudeau must go divide n fear evil corrupt dictator
When will people ever learn to respond in mercy, not anger and vengeance. ❤️
Do you have podcasts? Your stuff is awesome!
Sir, this video is utterly unwatchable. I realise the text from which you are reading was written a very long time ago by an ignorant man and for an equally ignorant readership but could you not, given the medium in which you now present the gentleman’s words, edit the text for the sake of common courtesy and appropriateness so that you are not referring to an actual human being as “a cripple”? You are only getting away with that language because you are quoting another man from another time but I hardly think you’d be reading a text littered with the word”nigger” or “faggot” with quite such abandon.
Equality and dignity for all, if you please, sir.