# Sitting Bull

> A Hunkpapa Lakota leader who held out against U.S. expansion longer than almost anyone, then was shot dead by Indian agency police on his own reservation when authorities feared he might join a religious movement.

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

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## Identity
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1831
- **Died:** 1890-12-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Sitting Bull led his people through decades of resistance to government policies that sought to break Lakota sovereignty. Before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, he had a vision of soldiers "as thick as grasshoppers" falling upside down into the Lakota camp — three weeks later, on June 25, 1876, confederated Lakota and Northern Cheyenne annihilated Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's battalion. The U.S. sent thousands more troops in response. Sitting Bull refused surrender and in May 1877 led his band north to Wood Mountain in what's now Saskatchewan, staying until 1881 when he returned and surrendered to U.S. forces. After a stint performing with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, he returned to Standing Rock Agency. On December 15, 1890, Indian Service agent James McLaughlin ordered his arrest over fears he'd support the Ghost Dance movement. In the struggle that followed, Standing Rock policemen Lieutenant Bull Head and Red Tomahawk shot him in the chest and head after his supporters opened fire on the arresting party.

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## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #United States, #Americas, #19th Century

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