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Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull

1831

December 15, 1890

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Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. Sitting Bull was killed by Indian agency police accompanied by U.S. officers and supported by U.S. troops 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.

Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man (1831–1890)

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