Sitting Bull (1831-37 – December 15, 1890) by David F. Barry circa 1883, Bismarck, Dakota Territory

Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota Indian, led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. At the Battle of Little Big-horn the confederated Lakota tribes with the Northern Cheyenne defeated the 7th Cavalry led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, on June 25, 1876, annihilating Custer’s battalion. Sitting Bull was killed by Indian agency police accompanied by U.S. officers supported by U.S. troops at the standing rock Indian Reservation in 1890.