LA GRACE, S.D. — Charles Abbott Wilkins came to Dakota Territory in 1883 to seek a better future on the prairie, then opening to settlers during the bustling Great Dakota Boom. The 21-year-old native ...
The 125th anniversary of Chief Sitting Bull's surrender is an opportune time to learn about one of our nation's Indian heroes. Sitting Bull was one of the most determined of warriors during the height ...
A circa 1883 photograph of Lakota leader Sitting Bull Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On December 15, 1890, Major James McLaughlin of the United States Indian Service wired a telegram back to ...
The legend of Hiawatha -- King Philip, leader of the Wampanoag -- Popé and the Pueblo revolt -- Pontiac's war in the wilderness -- Maquinna of Vancouver Island -- Tecumseh, the greatest hope -- ...
The western plains produced few nobler redskins than Chief Sitting Bull, last great leader of the Sioux tribes. It was Sitting Bull, driven to recklessness by the perfidy of the U.S. Government, who ...
WASHINGTON - Mementos of Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull were returned to his family Wednesday at a ceremony in a quiet corner of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. "I appreciate ...
Ernie LaPointe points to a depiction of famed Indian chief Sitting Bull and some of his descendants at LaPointe's home in Lead, S.D., April 18, 2007. LaPointe, who claims to be one of the Sioux ...