(Tatanka Yotanka; in English, Sitting Bull; Grand River., 1834 - Fort Yates, id., 1890) Hunkpapa Lakota leader. As a young man he was part of the akicita (secret society) Brave Hearts, and gained fame for his deeds, which made him one of the most important Lakota leaders, strong defender of the ancient customs during the struggle of his people against American colonialism.
Sitting Bull formed cross-tribal alliances in his efforts to resist the process of colonization. Sitting Bull also steadfastly refused to become dependent on aid from the U.S. government.
On June 25th, 1876, Colonel Custer and his forces were wiped out at the battle of Little Big Horn. Sitting Bull did not take part in the battle, but acted as a kind of spiritual leader to those who did, performing the Sun Dance, in which he fasted and sacrificed over 100 pieces of flesh from his arms, a week prior.
In response, the U.S. government sent thousands more soldiers to the area, forcing many of the Lakota to surrender over the next year. Sitting Bull refused to surrender, and in May 1877, he led his band north to Wood Mountain, North-West Territories (now Saskatchewan). He remained there until 1881, when he and most of his band returned to U.S. territory and surrendered to U.S. forces.
In 1890, due to fears that Sitting Bull would use his influence to support the Ghost Dance movement (a movement of indigenous resistance), Indian Service agent James McLaughlin ordered his arrest. Early in the morning of December 15th, 39 police officers and four volunteers approached Sitting Bull's house. The camp awakened and men began to converge at the scene.
When Sitting Bull refused to comply, the police used force on him, enraging members of the village. Catch-the-Bear, a Lakota, shouldered his rifle and shot one of the Indian agents, who reacted by firing his revolver into the chest of Sitting Bull, killing him.
In 1953, his Lakota family exhumed what were believed to be his remains, reburying them near Mobridge, South Dakota, near his birthplace.
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trying to cut down on your vice of choice w/o the means to address the root cause/motive for that vice (which may not even be in your control if the root cause is our larger social structures) fucking sucks ass. oh wow cool i have all the same bad feelings but don't have drinking to make me care less about them. neat. this seems like a good use of my energy. this is genuinely improving my life. 🙄
Me with weed. I'm on day 2 of a break rn and it's just the same shit but more boring. Solidarity
i will concede though that not being hungover is kinda goated
on the other hand my longest streak of not drinking i just replaced it with video games which i guess is technically healthier but still left me with sleep deprivation and did not lead to a deeper contentment. we are not meant to play fighting games that much and that late into the night.
When it comes to vices, I like to believe that, regardless of the underlying issue, you're going to have a better outcome, and sometimes good outcomes are only possible, in the absence of the vice. This is with the theory of addiction in that you have the craving because you've dropped your dopamine levels and the only reason it is low in the first place is the vice. You then take it, flood your dopamine, reduce your ability to uptake it, and then it flushes out leaving you with the craving. In other words, the vice causes the craving, it doesn't sate it.
If you find yourself caught with bad feelings and you're drunk, you're fucked. If it's DnD, you're rolling with disadvantage. If you're sober, you could hit a passive insight check that prevents you from feeding triggers to negative emotions. You could roll con to just tank feeling bad. You could roll wisdom to find something interesting to do. You might wind up at the bottom of the same emotional pit anyway, but if you didn't drink on your way down there, then you avoided a bunch of damage to your body and gave yourself the best shot possible to win next time.
Psychiatric care also makes sense in this context. If the medicine helps you think a decision through or focus long enough to do necessary work, then that's not for nothing.