Sitting Bull

noun

1. 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.

Sitting Bull

noun

1. Sitting Bull?18311890MSiouxPOLITICS: tribal leader Indian name Tatanka Yotanka . ?1831–90, American Indian chief of the Teton Dakota Sioux. Resisting White encroachment on his people's hunting grounds, he led the Sioux tribes against the US Army in the Sioux War (1876–77) in which Custer was killed. The hunger of the Sioux, whose food came from the diminishing buffalo, forced his surrender (1881). He was killed during renewed strife

Sitting Bull

1. A Native American leader of the Sioux tribe in the late nineteenth century. He was a chief and medicine man when the Sioux took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States army troops. He was present at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, when the Sioux decisively defeated the cavalry led by Colonel George Custer. ( See Custer's last stand .)

Example Sentences

In 1890, hoping to stop the spread of the Ghost Dance, federal agents went to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to arrest Chief Sitting Bull, who they believed was behind its influence there.

From Seattle Times

Lakota chief Sitting Bull was gunned down by members of his own tribe, who served in the reservation's police force at Standing Rock.

From Salon

In Sitting Bull's prophetic vision before the battle, American soldiers pinwheeled through the sky, bleeding from the ears.

From Salon

"If it wasn't signed, it's still very valuable," said Livingston of the Sitting Bull photo with his family.

From Reuters

Sitting Bull’s grandson Crazy Bull, a national archery champion who advised Rodgers and Hammerstein on their production of “Annie Get Your Gun,” was an occasional presence.

From New York Times