Birth of Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull was born in 1831 in Grand River. A Hunkpapa Lakota holy man and leader, Sitting Bull became known as a chief of the Lakota who resisted the encroachment of the United States on the Great Plains. After the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, which had been guaranteed to the Lakota by treaty, he joined other leaders in opposing white settlement. His spiritual vision of soldiers falling into the camp before the battle helped inspire the Lakota and Cheyenne who defeated Custer's cavalry at the Little Bighorn in 1876. He later fled to Canada, surrendered in 1881, and toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West. He was killed during an attempt by Indian police to arrest him.

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