Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake [tˣaˈtˣə̃ka ˈijɔtakɛ]; c. 1837 – 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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sitting Bull has received more than 6,054,265 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 86 in 2019). Sitting Bull is the 428th most popular politician (down from 331st in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from United States (down from 111th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Politician.

Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux chief who led his people as a war leader in the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. He was killed on December 15, 1890, by Indian police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.