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Sitting Bull

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Also known as Tatanka Iyotanka, Chief Sitting Bull, Sitting Buffalo Bull, Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake

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

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Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake) was a male Lakota traditional leader and medicine man. Born on January 1, 1831, in Grand River, he was a citizen of the United States and a member of the Lakota people. He spoke English, Sioux, and Lakota. His field of work was associated with the Sioux, and he participated in the Great Sioux War of 1876. He had a child named Crow Foot.

Sitting Bull died on December 15, 1890, in Dakota Territory from a gunshot wound. He is quoted as saying, "I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier," and "This is a good day to die. Follow me!" His biography is described in sources such as Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

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Person · Open Library

Born
ca. 1831
Died
December 15, 1890
Works
2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1831
Active to
1890
_listen on homepage while adding releasesambientavant-gardeavantgardedark ambientdrone
Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
871
Total plays
6,897

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

    · 2020 · cited 9,564x

  2. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 9,258x

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    · 2019 · cited 5,468x

  4. Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK

    · 2021 · cited 4,163x

  5. Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects

    · 2012 · cited 4,157x

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Quotes

  • “You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.”
  • “I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon … shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.”
  • “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. I had rather die on the field of battle.”
  • “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. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee.”
  • “I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.”
  • “This is a good day to die. Follow me!”

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Encyclopedic overview

Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake [tˣaˈtˣə̃ka ˈijɔtakɛ]; c. 1831–37 – December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. Sitting Bull was killed by Indian agency police accompanied by U.S. officers and supported by U.S. troops 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 fulfill 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-West Territories, now Saskatchewan. He remained there until 1881, when he and most of his band returned to U.S. territory and surrendered to U.S. forces.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sitting Bull” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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