Lakota people
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The Lakota are a Native American people. Also known as the Teton Sioux, they are one of the three prominent subcultures of the Sioux people, with the Eastern Dakota and Western Dakota. Their current l
Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man, c. 1831 – December 15, 1890
Scenes of battle and horse raiding decorate a muslin Lakota tipi from the late 19th or early 20th century
Artist's rendering of Crazy Horse and his band of Oglala on their way from Camp Sheridan to surrender to General Crook at Red Cloud Agency
Lakota parfleche, c. 1890, Speed Art Museum
Sitting Bull
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Sitting Bull 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 accompanied by U.S. o
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…bands to reservations under a Black Hills cession treaty whose legitimacy remains disputed. Conflict flared a final time in 1890, when the killing of Sitting Bull at Standing Rock was followed two weeks later by the Wounded Knee Massacre, in which the 7th Cavalry killed more than 250 Lakota men, women, and…
Sitting Bull, c. 1883
An illustration of Sitting Bull, published in the December 8, 1877, issue of Harper's Weekly
The area of Big Horn County, Montana where the Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought
Fort Buford's commanding officer's quarters in present-day Williams County, North Dakota, where Sitting Bull's surrender ceremony was held