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
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
The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand and known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between c
Sitting Bull
…Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement. 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…
The Custer Fight Charles Marion Russell, 1903
A Cheyenne Sun Dance gathering, c. 1909
1876 US Army campaign against the Sioux