The warrior societies of the Hunkpapa Sioux had proposed to bands of Cheyennes and Arapahos, northern Sioux Minneconjous, Sans Arcs, and Crazy Horse’s Oglalas, and a few Yanktonais and Two Kettles, that they elect a single leader to marshal them against the whites. The group fell in behind Sitting Bull, now a warrior in his early thirties who had gained a reputation as a deadly fighter and a holy man.
