Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man (1831–1890)
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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.
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 su…
Sourced, dated quotes from Sitting Bull
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.… I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit has chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
This is a good day to die. Follow me!
I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed.
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death.
Look at me, see if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you say, but I will have good times till then.
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