Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him. In 1953, his Lakota family exhumed what were believed to be his remains, reburying them near Mobridge, South Dakota, near his birthplace.
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Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement. In 1953, his Lakota family exhumed what were believed to be his remains, reburying them near Mobridge, South Dakota, near his birthplace. In 2007, Sitting Bull’s great-grandson asserted from family oral tradition that Sitting Bull was born along the Yellowstone River, south of present-day Miles City, Montana. The name, Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake, which in the Lakota language approximately means \”buffalo who set himself to watch over the herd\”, was simplified as \”S sitting Bull\”. Thereafter, his father was known as Jumping Bull. In 1866 to 1868, he fought for the Oglala Lakota against U.S. forces attacking their attacking wagon train. The bullet exited through the small back of his back, and the wound was not serious. He died on December 15, 1890, after being shot in the side and head by Standing Rock policemen Lieutenant Bull Head and Red Tomahawk, after the police were fired upon by Sitting Bull’s supporters. His body was taken to nearby Fort Yates for burial, but his remains were never found until 1953, when they were exhumated and reburied nearMobridge, North Dakota, where he was buried with his family.
He is buried at Fort Yates, along with his wife and two children, who were born in 1831 and 1838. He had a vision in which he saw many soldiers, \”as thick as grasshoppers,\” falling upside down into the LakOTA camp, which his people took as a foreshadowing of a major victory in which many soldiers would be killed. In May 1877, he led his band north to Wood Mountain, North-Western Territory. He remained there until 1881, at which time he and most of his band returned to U. S. territory and surrendered to US forces. In the Dakota War of 1862, several bands of eastern Dakota people killed an estimated 300 to 800 settlers and soldiers in south-central Minnesota in response to poor treatment by the government and in an effort to drive the whites away. Despite being embroiled in the American Civil War, the United States Army retaliated in 1863 and 1864, even against bands which had not been involved in the war. In 1864,. two brigades of about 2200 soldiers under Brigadier General Alfred Alfred. Alfred attacked a Lakota village, led by SittingBull, Gallpaduta and Inkpaduta. The defenders were driven out but skirmishing continued into August at the Battle of the Badlands. In September 1864. Sitting Bull led an attack against a small party of Lakota, commanded by Captain James L Fisk, who had been left behind by a wagon wagon.
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