Sitting Bull accepted his arrest quietly at first, and commenced dressing for the journey to the Agency, during which ceremony (which consumed considerable time) his son, "Crow Foot," who was in ...

The reality was a little more complicated. Sitting Bull was born in what is now South Dakota, probably in 1831, son of a respected Sioux warrior named Returns-Again. The child wanted to follow in ...

his father put on a celebratory feast at which he passed down his own name onto his son. His name meant 'Buffalo Bull Who Sits Down' in the Lakota language, later abbreviated to 'Sitting Bull'.