South Dakota author Ernie LaPointe and his three sisters are now the only known living descendants of the legendary Lakota warrior Sitting Bull.

DNA Confirms Sitting Bull Was South Dakota Man’s Great-Grandfather Ernie LaPointe, the great-grandson of the leader Tatanka Iyotake, said he hoped the DNA confirmation would bolster his campaign ...

In February, he wrote to an assortment of Sioux tribes, including Standing Rock, which claims Sitting Bull. “North Dakota, South Dakota and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have not honored their ...

LaPointe, 73, who lives in Lead, South Dakota, and his three sisters now have further proof of their familial ties to Sitting Bull: a DNA analysis involving a lock of Sitting Bull’s hair that ...

Native Warrior. Sitting Bull was born in what is now South Dakota, probably in 1831, son of a respected Sioux warrior named Returns-Again. The child wanted to follow in his father's footsteps but ...

After Sitting Bull was fatally shot by Native American police in 1890, his body was in the custody of a temporary army doctor at the Fort Yates military base in North Dakota.

Sitting Bull remains a durable symbol of stubborn resistance in the face of daunting odds. In Germany, he's also an energy drink and a bicycle seat - a name still associated with rebellion, but ...

Is he really buried in South Dakota? Facts are hard to come by in the fight over Sitting Bull’s remains. His bones may not even be found on that bluff overlooking the Missouri River. One theory ...

Sitting Bull, the revered leader of the Great Sioux Nation, stood as a powerful figure among Plains Tribal Nations resisting ...

The item was enclosed in a box showing that it had been expressed from Sitting Bull’s neighborhood in Dakota in which box it is still enclosed.” Parker Whedon of Charlotte, North Carolina, purchased ...