Sitting Bull
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Sitting Bull was a renowned Hunkpapa Lakota leader and holy man best known for uniting Plains tribes in resistance to U.S. expansion and for his role in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Lakota leader
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Native American chief → holy man → human → |
| allyOf |
Crazy Horse
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Gall (Lakota leader) → |
| birthDate |
c. 1831
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| birthPlace |
Hunkpapa Lakota territory
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near Grand River, present-day South Dakota → |
| citizenship |
Hunkpapa Lakota Nation
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| commanded |
Hunkpapa Lakota warriors
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| conflictWith |
U.S. Indian agents
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United States Army → |
| countryOfResidence |
United States
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| deathCause |
gunshot wounds
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| deathDate |
1890-12-15
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| deathPlace |
Standing Rock Indian Reservation, South Dakota
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| ethnicity |
Hunkpapa Lakota
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Lakota Sioux → |
| honoredIn |
Native American cultural memory
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monuments in South Dakota → |
| influenced |
Lakota resistance strategy
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| killedBy |
Indian police
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| languageSpoken |
Lakota
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| laterActivity |
briefly performed with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show
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| movement |
Native American resistance to U.S. expansion
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| name |
Sitting Bull
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| nativeName |
Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake
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| notableFor |
refusing to sign treaties ceding Lakota lands
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role in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn → uniting Plains tribes in resistance to United States expansion → |
| notableWork |
vision that preceded the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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| occupation |
spiritual leader
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tribal chief → war leader → |
| opposedTo |
U.S. government Indian policies
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United States westward expansion → |
| participatedIn |
Battle of the Little Bighorn
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Great Sioux War of 1876 → |
| positionHeld |
Hunkpapa Lakota chief
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spiritual leader of the Hunkpapa → |
| religion |
Lakota traditional religion
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| residence |
Grand River area
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Standing Rock Reservation → |
| returnedTo |
United States from Canada in 1881
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| soughtRefugeIn |
Canada
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| subjectOf |
historical studies of the Great Sioux War
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numerous biographies → |
Referenced by (7)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
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Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters ("Chief Sitting Bull") → |
notablePersonFeatured |
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William F. Cody
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collaboratedWith |
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Sioux people
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hasNotableLeader |
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Sitting Bull
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name |
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Wild West
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notablePerson |
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Great Sioux War of 1876
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opposingCommander |