DNA confirms South Dakota man is great-grandson of Sitting Bull 01:50. A lock of hair from legendary Lakota chief Sitting Bull's head had been stored for over a century in Washington's Smithsonian ...

The great-grandson of the legendary Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull has been confirmed as his closest living relative using an innovative new DNA technique applied to hair taken from the Native ...

The Smithsonian was looking for descendants of Sitting Bull, and there was an individual at Smithsonian who told Bill Billeck that maybe he should contact me. He didn't know who I was, but he ...

Plucked from Sitting Bull’s scalp during his lifetime, the strand had been in preservation at Washington’s Smithsonian Museum for more than a century before ultimately being returned to ...

Sitting Bull did not go quietly when 39 police officers knocked on his door at 5:30 in the morning on December 15, 1890. The noise awakened his supporters, who were enraged at this treatment.

In 2007, that oral history was verified by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, which concluded that Mr. LaPointe and his sisters were the only living relatives of Sitting Bull.

An image of the legendary warrior chief Sitting Bull. Smithsonian Institution. Ernie Lapointe is a Native American author and Sun Dancer, and for years, ...

Sitting Bull, whose real name was Tatanka Iyotake, famously led 1,500 Native American warriors at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, wiping out US General Custer and five companies of soldiers.

Porte Crayon. "Sitting Bull - Autobiography of the Famous Sioux Chief" Harpers Weekly, July 29, 1876: 625–628. Stirling, Matthew W. "Three Pictographic Autobiographies of Sitting Bull," Smithsonian ...

Sitting Bull, who lived from 1831 to 1890, led the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux people during years of resistance against US government policies for Indigenous people, uniting many Great Plains tribes ...

He had stunning news: On his orders, Lakota resistance leader Sitting Bull was dead. “The Indian police arrested Sitting Bull at his camp, 40 miles northwest of the agency, this morning at daylight.