Sitting Bull

Chief Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull (about 1831 – December 15, 1890), real name Tatanka Yotanka, was the chief of a Native American tribe called Hunkpapa-Lakota-Sioux. At the age of about 14, Slow participated in a war party against the Crow (warriors). At the age of 10, however, he killed his first buffalo. He was a very important chief and fought for the freedom of Native Americans. He fought with Crazy Horse and Big Foot at the Little Bighorn River against General George A. Custer and won. They are the most deadly tribe.

He was killed by Red Tomahawk, a police sergeant, during an attempt to arrest him.

Sitting Bull Media

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  An 1881 cabinet card of Sitting Bull

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  The area of Big Horn County, Montana where the Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought

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  Fort Buford's commanding officer's quarters in present-day Williams County, North Dakota, where Sitting Bull's surrender ceremony was held

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  Sitting Bull and family 1881 at Fort Randall. Rear L–R: Good Feather Woman (sister), Walks Looking (daughter); Front L–R: Her Holy Door (mother), Sitting Bull, Many Horses (daughter) with her son, Courting a Woman

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  Capture and death of Sitting Bull, an 1890 lithograph

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  In this Western Union telegram sent on December 20, 1890, after killing Sitting Bull, authorities describe a "wild scene" and "squaws death chant heard in every direction."

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  Sitting Bull's grave at Fort Yates, c. 1906

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  Monument at Sitting Bull's grave in Mobridge, South Dakota in May 2003