1831-1890 A Hunkpapa Lakota chief and religious man that the Lakota tribes depended on at northern plains, Sitting Bull stayed reluctant toward American military power and untrustworthy towards American promises tell his death. Born around 1831 on the Grand River which is now present-day South Dakota, at a place the Lakota called "Many Caches" because of the 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.
At Standing Rock, the authorities feared that Sitting Bull, still was a spiritual leader, would join the Ghost Dancers and they sent 43 Lakota policemen to bring him in. Before dawn on December 15, 1890 policemen burst into Sitting Bull's cabin and dragged him outside, where his followers were gathering to protect him. In the gunfight that came afterwords, one of the Lakota policemen shot a bullet into Sitting Bull's head.