Native American Collection

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More than 130 years after his death, Sitting Bull remains as one of the greatest Native Americans who ever lived. A Lakota Sioux holy man from the Hunkpapa band, Sitting Bull bravely resisted the U.S. government’s efforts to take over tribal land in the Black Hills. Thanks to his daunting force of will, a confederation of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians met and defeated U.S. troops at the battles of the Rosebud and the Little Big Horn in the summer of 1876 during the Great Sioux War. Considered to be the chief “Hostile” among the Indians, Sitting Bull was the last to surrender to the authority of the government