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The Grand River (Lakota: Čhaŋšúška Wakpá [4]) is a tributary of the Missouri River in South Dakota in the United States. The length of the combined branch is 110 mi (177 km). With its longest fork, its length is approximately 200 mi (320 km).
Grand River, river formed by the confluence of the North and South forks in Perkins county, northern South Dakota, U.S. The Grand River flows southeast and a little south to join the Missouri River near Mobridge after a course of 209 miles (336 km).
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Aug 20, 2024 · Sitting Bull (born c. 1831, near Grand River, Dakota Territory [now in South Dakota], U.S.—died December 15, 1890, on the Grand River in South Dakota) was a Lakota (Teton) chief under whom the Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) peoples united in their struggle against the encroachment of settlers on the northern Great Plains.
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- Sitting Bull was a war leader and spiritual leader behind whom the Sioux nation united to resist domination by white people. He led an Indian coali...
- In 1885 Sitting Bull was part of Buffalo Bill’s popular Wild West show, which gained him international fame.
- During the spread of the Ghost Dance religious movement, which promised a return of their traditional way of life to the Sioux, the U.S. government...
- Sitting Bull’s Early Life
- Sitting Bull Resists U.S. Government
- Sitting Bull and The Fort Laramie Treaty
- The Battle of Little Bighorn
- Sitting Bull Surrenders
- Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show
- Sitting Bull’s Death and Burial Site
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Sitting Bull was born in 1831 near Grand River, Dakota Territory in what is today South Dakota. He was the son of Returns-Again, a renowned Sioux warrior who named his son “Jumping Badger” at birth. The young boy killed his first buffalo at age 10 and by 14, joined his father and uncle on a raid of a Crow camp. After the raid, his father renamed hi...
Sitting Bull first battled the U.S. Army in June of 1863, when they came after the Santee Sioux (not the Dakota) in retaliation for the Minnesota Uprising, sparked when federal agents withheld food from the Sioux living on reservations along the Minnesota River. Over 300 Sioux were arrested in the Minnesota Uprising, but President Abraham Lincolnco...
His resolve was not shared by all. In 1868, Red Cloud, or Mahpiua Luta (1822-1909), chief of the Oglala Teton Dakota Sioux, signed the Fort Laramie Treaty with 24 other tribal leaders and representatives of the U.S. government including Lieutenant General William Tecumseh Sherman. The treaty created the Great Sioux Reservation and earmarked additio...
It was in a camp at Little Bighorn River that Sitting Bull, then a revered leader and holy man, or “Wichasa Wakan,” participated in a Sun Dance ceremony where he famously danced for 36 hours straight, making 50 sacrificial cuts on each arm before falling into a trance. When he awoke, he revealed that he had a vision of U.S. soldiers falling like gr...
In the wake of the Battle of Little Bighorn, the incensed U.S. government redoubled their efforts to hunt down the Sioux. At the same time, the encroachment of white settlers on traditionally Indian lands greatly reduced the buffalo population that the Sioux depended on for survival. In May 1877, Sitting Bull led his people to safety in Canada. Wit...
Sitting Bull was occasionally permitted to travel, and it was on one of his trips outside the reservation that he struck up a friendship with sharpshooter Annie Oakley, whom he affectionately nicknamed “Little Sure Shot” after seeing her perform in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1884. In 1885, Sitting Bull joined Oakley in performing in Buffalo Bill Cody’s...
Standing Rock Reservation soon became the center of controversy when the Ghost Dance Movement started gaining traction. Followers believed that deceased tribe members would rise from the dead along with killed buffalo while all white people would disappear. Worried that the influential Sitting Bull would join the movement and incite rebellion, Indi...
Sitting Bull. Biography.com. New Perspectives on The West: Sitting Bull. PBS. Sitting Bull. NPS.gov. Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill And The Circus of Lies. The Independent. The Native American Ghost Dance, A Symbol of Defiance. ThoughtCo. Last Stand to Save Grave of Sitting Bull. The Telegraph.
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The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [1] until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
Sitting Bull was born on land later included in the Dakota Territory sometime between 1831 and 1837. [9][10] In 2007, Sitting Bull's great-grandson asserted from family oral tradition that Sitting Bull was born along the Yellowstone River, south of present-day Miles City, Montana. [11]
Sitting Bull, (born c. 1831, near Grand River, Dakota Territory, U.S.—died Dec. 15, 1890, on the Grand River in South Dakota), Teton Sioux chief under whom the Sioux peoples united in their struggle for survival.
