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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. |
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