Sitting Bull
Lakota war chief
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who united Sioux tribes against U.S. expansion in the 1870s.
He is best known for his role in the defeat of George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
After years of resistance and exile in Canada, he was killed by Indian police in 1890.
His name evokes Indigenous resistance to American westward expansion.
Plains Indigenous nation
- TetonWyoming mountain range
- DakotaSiouan-speaking Plains people
- OglalaLakota Sioux division
- Standing RockSioux reservation spanning Dakotas
Pine Ridge · Rosebud · Great Plains · tipi · vision quest · buffalo · tribe · chief
1876 Montana battle site
- CusterCavalry officer, 1876 defeat
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
- warriorOne skilled in combat
- treaty violationBreaking a formal agreement
land rights · Black Hills · uprising · struggle · opposition · standoff · sovereignty · refuge
Sioux
Plains Indigenous nation
Standing Rock · Pine Ridge · Rosebud · Great Plains · tipi · vision quest · buffalo · tribe · chief · elder
Little Bighorn
1876 Montana battle site
treaty violation · land rights · Black Hills · uprising · struggle · opposition · standoff · sovereignty · refuge · Canada
legend
Unverified traditional tale
Native American · visionary · holy man · prophet · wisdom · elder · revered · historical figure · statesman · memorial
medicine man
Traditional indigenous healer
sacred · prayer · fasting · piercing · ceremony · supernatural · holy man · seer · trance · spiritual leader
- Anti-ColonialistsHo Chi Minh, Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mandela
- Indigenous LeadersCrazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Red Cloud, Tecumseh, Cochise
- Lakota ChiefsCrazy Horse, Red Cloud, Big Foot
- Little BighornCuster, Crazy Horse, Sioux, Cheyenne, Lakota
- Native ChiefsPontiac, Tecumseh, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Powhatan
- Sioux HeritageSioux, Lakota, Dakota, Oglala, Teton
Sitting Bullassimilationist
Advocate for cultural absorption
Sitting BullU.S. Cavalry
Mounted American military force
colonizer · William Tecumseh Sherman · Andrew Jackson · Buffalo Bill Cody
Sitting BullAndrew Jackson
Seventh U.S. president