Cody and Sitting Bull. Cody, who had served as a scout during the 1876 war but never encountered Sitting Bull on the battlefield, had a complicated relationship with the Sioux warrior.

Sitting Bull — whose given name was Tatanka Iyotake, or “Buffalo Bull Who Sits Down” — lived from 1831 to 1890, when he was assassinated by US police. Getty Images ...

Sitting Bull is best known for his victory over then-US Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. Fourteen years after this battle, ...

A lock of hair and wool leggings belonging to Sitting Bull will soon be repatriated by the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., to his closest living relatives. The Hunkpapa ...

Sitting Bull—known as Jumping Badger until an act of audacious bravery got him rechristened, so to speak—was a literal visionary, according to the miniseries, one who dreamed of Custer’s ...

The possible assassination attempt came on Sitting Bull's second trip to St. Paul in September 1884, after he attended a play called "My Partner" at the Grand Opera House.

The brand new history documentary Sitting Bull premieres on the History Channel Tuesday, May 27 at 9/8c. The first part of the documentary premieres May 27 and the second part will follow ...

Sitting Bull remains impassive, he does his lap of the arena. Not for one moment did anyone think to get him to perform an episode from the Indian wars or from some other time his life: a simple ...

The first chapter of Sitting Bull premieres Tuesday, May 27, on the History Channel, and the second one airs the following night. Check out an exclusive trailer right here.

One of the refreshing things about “Sitting Bull,” the History Channel’s two-night, four-hour documentary on the Sioux leader, is its attempt at some kind of balance amid the hosannas.