Sitting Bull
| Born | 1831 |
| Hometown | Grand River, Dakota Territory, U.S. |
| Height | 5'9" (1.75m) |
| Spouse | Scarlet Woman, Seen-by-her-Nation, Snow-on-Her, Four-Robes-Woman, Light Hair |
| Children | Crow Foot, William Sitting Bull, John Sitting Bull, a.k.a. Runs-away-from-him/Nakicipa, Standing Holy, Many Horses, Lodge in Sight, a.k.a. Refuses-them |
| Parents | Her-Holy-Door, Jumping Bull |
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Garst Museum in Greenville set to allow visitors to take aim with Annie Oakley's guns
- The Garst Museum in Greenville has found an unusual way to raise money and allow history buffs to connect with their inner sharpshooter.
- Carlsbad Current-Argus
No summer plans? Love the outdoors? Sitting Bull Falls needs camp hosts
- KRQE Albuquerque
Sitting Bull Falls Recreation Area gate reopens
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Sitting Bull Falls temporarily closed because of staffing shortages
May 9—Sitting Bull Falls is one of the most popular recreation areas in the Lincoln National Forest, but access roads to the day-use area west of Carlsbad are closed because of staffing shortages in the Guadalupe Ranger District. Sitting Bull Falls is the only closure planned in the Lincoln National Forest, said Amanda Fry, a spokeswoman for the Lincoln National Forest. Many of the campsites ...
- USNative News Online
Poisonous Words and the Massacre of? Wounded Knee
Today marks the 133rd anniversary of the Massacre of Wounded Knee during the wintry week between Christmas and New Years back in 1890. Nine days before the massacre that left hundreds of Sioux men, women, and children dead, an obscure weekly newspaper in South Dakota ran an editorial about the death of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull. Early in the morning on Dec. 29, 1890, across the state of South Dakota at Wounded Knee Creek, the Sioux, who were captured the previous afternoon by mem
- WorldUnited Press International
On This Day, Dec. 15: APA removes homosexuality from list of mental illnesses
On Dec. 15, 1973, the American Psychiatric Association reversed its longstanding position and declared that being gay isn't a mental illness.
- USPetoskey News Review
Looking Back: Railroad connections, Captain Walter Clifford and more
Looking Back reviews the news from Charlevoix from 150, 100 and 50 years ago.
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Hours-long barricade situation in Murfreesboro ends in arrest
A police investigation is preventing Blackman schools from dropping off some students Thursday afternoon.
- USMcAlester News-Capital, Okla.
Choctaw Nation opens first tribally-owned children's advocacy center in Oklahoma
Aug. 25—Choctaw Nation Prosecutor Kara Bacon said an advocacy center operated by the southeast Oklahoma tribal nation is an answer to a challenge given by a Lakota Chief more than a hundred years ago "Lakota Chief Sitting Bull made a challenge to all people, and he said 'Let us put our heads together and see what life we can make for our children,'" Bacon said. Choctaw Nation Chief Gary Batton ...
- USUnited Press International
On This Day, July 20: 12 killed in shooting at Aurora, Colo., movie theater
On July 20, 2012, a gunman opened fire at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" at a theater in Aurora, Colo., killing 12 people and wounding 58.
- USAmerican News
A guide to Aberdeen-area July 4th events, from fireworks to the Sitting Bull Stampede Rodeo
Fireworks, bands, and parades are planned in and around Aberdeen for the July 4 holiday weekend.
- USThe Daily Beast
Custer Lost but No One Really Won at the Little Big Horn
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyOn June 25, 1876, a village of some five thousand Lakotas and Cheyennes camped on the Greasy Grass River (today’s Little Big Horn) was famously attacked by George Armstrong Custer and his vaunted Seventh Cavalry. The Indians were followers of the powerful Húnkpapa holy man Sitting Bull, and, like their leader, most of them wanted nothing to do with white men. They simply wanted to be left alone, to live separate from the Euro-Americans wh
- SportsChattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.
Jay Greeson: 5-at-10: Friday mailbag with movie theater snacks, sideline reporters, a condiment draft, and why I'm a jerk
Dec. 17—Let's handle our business. Rushmore of movies with a flower in the title: "Driving Miss Daisy," "Steel Magnolias" — Side question: Did you know that they remade "Steel Magnolias" with an all Black cast in 2012? — "The Best Exoctic Marigold Hotel" and "War of the Roses." Rushmore of famous sports prognosticators: Jimmy the Greek is far left, even with his breeding comments, right? Lee ...
