Lakota
Hunkpapa-Sioux
 

Sitting Bull ( Ta-ton-ka-I-yo-ton-ka )
 

Sitting Bull, born about 1831. 
He was the principal leader of the Sioux, who were driven from their reservation in the Black Hills by miners in 1876, and took up arms against the whites. In June, 1876, they defeated and massacred Gen. George A. Custer's at Little Big Horn. They were pursued by General Terry. Sitting Bull, with a part of his band, made his escape into British Territory, and, through the mediation of Canadian officials, surrendered on a promise of pardon in 1880. In July and August, 1888, in a conference at Standing Rock, he influenced his tribe to refuse to relinquish Native American lands. He died in 1890 when followers tried to rescue him from the reservation police.
The shield carries by Sitting Bull brings together a number of elements in a single circle of defensive, and protective powers of the Sioux cosmos.

 

 
     
Chronology of Sitting Bull's Life:
1831 Born near present South Dakota.

1845 Joins war party and counts first coup receives the name Sitting Bull from his father.

1856 Kills Crow chief in combat becomes chief of the Strong Hearts warrior society.

1857 Adopts captive Assiniboin boy as a brother.

1864 Participants in the Battle of Killdeer Mountains and the Battle of the Badlands.

1865 Fights US troops in the Battle of Powder River.

1867 Inaugurated head chief of the Teton Sioux.

1868 Negotiates the Treaty of Laramie with Father Pierre Jeane DeSmet.

1876 Assembles a force of Native Americans of the Plains and prepares for war against the US Army.
Performs the Sun Dance ritual.
Defeats General Cook in the Battle of the Rosebud, and General Custer in the Battle of Little Bighorn.

1877 Takes his people to Canada.

1878 Meets with the US Commission and refuses to leave Canada.

1881 Returns with his people to the United States and surrenders at Fort Buford.

1881-1883
Held in confinement at Fort Randall.

1885 Returns with his people to the United States and Canada with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.

1888 Resists the proposed breakup of the Great Sioux Reservation.

1889 Attempts unsuccessfully to block cession of land to the government.

1890 Killed by the Standing Rock Indian police during an attempted arrest, two weeks before the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek.