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Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota chief, under whom the Lakota tribes united in their struggle for survival on the northern plains, Sitting Bull remained defiant toward American military power and contemptuous of American promises to the end. He was born in 1831 and died in 1890. Sitting Bull was born in the Grand River area in present-day South Dakota, at a place the Lakota called "Many Caches" for the number of food storage pits they had dug there; Sitting Bull was given the name Tatanka-Iyotanka, which describes a buffalo bull sitting intractably on its haunches. It was a name he would live up to throughout his life. Picture of Sitting Bull  |
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Tuesday, 20 June 2006 |
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Red Cloud, also known as Makhpiya-Luta, was a warrior and a statesman. Red Cloud's success in confrontations with the United States government marked him as one of the most important Lakota leaders of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1822 and died in 1909. Although the details of his early life are unclear, Red Cloud was born near the forks of the Platte River, near what is now North Platte, Nebraska. His mother was an Oglala and his father, who died in Red Cloud's youth, was a Brul. Red Cloud was raised in the household of his maternal uncle, Chief Smoke. Much of Red Cloud's early life was spent at war, first and most often against the neighboring Pawnee and Crow, at times against other Oglala. In 1841 he killed one of his uncle's primary rivals, an event which divided the Oglala for the next fifty years. He gained enormous prominence within the Lakota nation for his leadership in territorial wars against the Pawnees, Crows, Utes and Shoshones. Photograph of Red Cloud 
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