This article is about the Hunkpapa Lakota leader. For the film, see Sitting Bull (film).
Hunkpapa Lakota leader (1831–1890)
Sitting Bull
Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake
Sitting Bull, c. 1883
Born
Húŋkešni (Slow) or Ȟoká Psíče (Jumping Badger)
c. 1831[1]
Grand River, Dakota Territory, U.S.
Died
December 15, 1890(1890-12-15) (aged 58–59)
Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Grand River, South Dakota, U.S.
Cause of death
Gunshot wound
Resting place
Mobridge, South Dakota, U.S. 45°31′0″N100°29′7″W / 45.51667°N 100.48528°W / 45.51667; -100.48528
Known for
Hunkpapa Lakota holy man and leader
Spouses
Light Hair
Four-Robes-Woman
Snow-on-Her
Seen-by-her-Nation
Scarlet Woman
Children
Crow Foot (son)
Many Horses (daughter)
Standing Holy (daughter)
William Sitting Bull, a.k.a. Runs-away-from-him/Nakicipa (son)[2]
Lodge in Sight (daughter)
John Sitting Bull, a.k.a. Refuses-them (stepson)[3]
Parents
Jumping Bull (father)
Her-Holy-Door (mother)
Relatives
White Bull (nephew)
One Bull (nephew)
Flying Hawk (nephew)
Ernie LaPointe (great-grandson)
Military career
Battles/wars
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Signature
Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake[tˣaˈtˣə̃kaˈijɔtakɛ];[4] c. 1837 – December 15, 1890)[5][6] was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. Sitting Bull was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.[7]
Before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had a vision in which he saw many soldiers, "as thick as grasshoppers", falling upside down into the Lakota camp, which his people took as a foreshadowing of a major victory in which many soldiers would be killed.[8] About three weeks later, the confederated Lakota tribes with the Northern Cheyenne defeated the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer on June 25, 1876, annihilating Custer's battalion and seeming to fulfill Sitting Bull's prophetic vision. Sitting Bull's leadership inspired his people to a major victory. 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.
After working as a performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, Sitting Bull returned to the Standing Rock Agency in South Dakota. Because of fears that Sitting Bull would use his influence to support the Ghost Dance movement, Indian Service agent James McLaughlin at Fort Yates ordered his arrest. During an ensuing struggle between Sitting Bull's followers and the agency police, Sitting Bull was shot in the side and head by Standing Rock policemen Lieutenant Bull Head (Tatankapah, Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Pȟá) and Red Tomahawk (Marcelus Chankpidutah, Lakota: Čhaŋȟpí Dúta), after the police were fired upon by Sitting Bull's supporters. His body was taken to nearby Fort Yates for burial. In 1953, his Lakota family exhumed what were believed to be his remains, reburying them near Mobridge, South Dakota, near his birthplace.
^Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20. 1955. p. 723.
^LaPointe, Ernie (2009). Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy. Gibbs Smith.
^LaPointe, Ernie (2009). Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy. Gibbs Smith.
^New Lakota Dictionary, 2008
^"Sitting Bull". National Park Service. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
^LaPointe, Ernie (2009). Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy. Gibbs Smith. p. 22.
^Kehoe, Alice (2006). The Ghost Dance. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc. ISBN 1-57766-453-1.
^Reilly, Edward J. (2011). Legends of American Indian Resistance. Greenwood. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-313-35209-6. Archived from the original on May 31, 2021. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
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