Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka à yotake [tˣaˈtˣə̃ka
ˈi.jÉ"takÉ›]; c. 1831 â€" December 15, 1890) 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.Before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull 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. About three weeks later, the confederated Lakota tribes with
the Northern Cheyenne defeated the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col. George
Armstrong Custer on June 25, 1876, annihilating Custer's battalion and
seeming to bear out Sitting Bull's prophetic vision. Sitting Bull's
leadership inspired his people to a major victory. In response, the
U.S. government sent thousands more soldiers to the area, forcing many
of the Lakota to surrender over the next year. Sitting Bull refused to
surrender, and in May 1877, he led his band north to Wood Mountain,
North-Western Territory (now Saskatchewan). He remained there until
1881, at which time he and most of his band returned to U.S. territory
and surrendered to U.S. forces.After working as a performer with
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, Sitting Bull returned to the Standing
Rock Agency in South Dakota. Due to fears that he would use his
influence to support the Ghost Dance movement, Indian Service agent
James McLaughlin at Fort Yates ordered his arrest. During an ensuing
struggle between Sitting Bull's followers and the agency police,
Sitting Bull was shot in the side and head by Standing Rock policemen
Lieutenant Bull Head (Tatankapah, Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Pȟá) and Red
Tomahawk (Marcelus Chankpidutah, Lakota: Čhaŋȟpí Dúta), after the
police were fired upon by Sitting Bull's supporters. His body was
taken to nearby Fort Yates for burial. In 1953, his Lakota family
exhumed what were believed to be his remains, reburying them near
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