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The great-grandson of the legendary Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull has been confirmed as his closest living relative using an innovative new DNA technique applied to hair taken from the Native ...
The team then compared Sitting Bull's DNA to samples from LaPointe and other Lakota Sioux — and a match confirmed that LaPointe is his great-grandson and closest living descendant.
The great-grandson of legendary 19th-century Lakota leader Sitting Bull has been confirmed thanks to an innovative new DNA method.
DNA fragments from a sample of Sitting Bull's hair, which had been loaned to the Smithsonian Institution, established the lineage through genetic analysis.
Native Warrior Sitting Bull was born in what is now South Dakota, probably in 1831, son of a respected Sioux warrior named Returns-Again.
Sitting Bull became a farmer, but he did not cease to be a leader and an irritation to white officials. In 1890, he was slain by Sioux police working for an American agent.
After Sitting Bull was killed, Buffalo Bill bought the horse from Sitting Bull's widows and, according to some accounts, rode it in a parade. And then the horse disappears from the record.
Sitting Bull’s final resting place is in Mobridge, S.D. He is forever revered as a holy man, a fearless warrior, an inspirational leader and a kind and loving father.
Analysis of DNA extracted from Sitting Bull's scalp lock has confirmed that Ernie Lapointe is Sitting Bull's great-grandson, and his closest living descendant.
Native Warrior Sitting Bull was born in what is now South Dakota, probably in 1831, son of a respected Sioux warrior named Returns-Again.
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