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American Indian chief of the Hunkpapa Sioux during the Plains Wars of 1865–90, the struggle between the Plains Indians and the USA. In 1868 Sitting Bull agreed to Sioux resettlement in North and South Dakota, but when gold was discovered in the Black Hills region, miners and the US army invaded Sioux territory. With the treaty broken, Sitting Bull led the Sioux against Lt-Col Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Montana, in 1876.
Sitting Bull was pursued by the US Army and forced to flee to Canada. He was allowed to return in 1881, and he toured in the Wild West show of ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody. He settled in South Dakota on the Standing Rock Reservation and was killed by Red Tomahawk, a Sioux police officer, during his arrest on suspicion of involvement in Indian agitations. His death represented one of the final acts of the defeat of the freedom and traditional way of life of the Plains Indians.
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