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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 has always been my hero, ever since I was a boy," Willerslev said. "I admire his courage and his drive." In the late 1800s, Tatanka Iyotake, ...
Sitting Bull, whose birth name was Tatanka Iyotake, was born in 1831 and became chief and medicine man of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux. He is best known for uniting the Sioux tribes across the Great ...
Sitting Bull’s Winchester comes with extensive documentation supporting the attribution to the Sioux chief (1831-1890). The rifle was supposedly recovered from Sitting Bull’s cabin on the day he was ...
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 ...
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's footsteps but showed no ...