Originally Posted by djplong

Ok, obviously I'm missing something.

What's wrong with Sitting Bull? The article from the UK mentions the massacre at Little Big Horn but neglects to mention that Custer's troops were invading Sioux lands because of gold discovered in the Black Hills.

Sitting Bull was defending his land. The almost-complete genocide of indigenous people is one of the two national disgraces that this country has performed (slavery being the other).

Of all the things in which I take pride in my country, and they are numerous, those two topics will never be among them.

Or is the negativity towards the naming of "Sitting Bull" because (if memory serves) he did NOT consider himself an American? He considered himself Sioux.