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Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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Hunkpapa
Traditional tribal grouping within the Lakota people
The Hunkpapa are a Native American group, one of the seven council fires of the Lakota tribe. The name Húŋkpapȟa is a Lakota word, meaning "Head of the Circle". By tradition, the Húŋkpapȟa set up their lodges at the entryway to the circle of the Great Council when the Sioux met…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Lakota people
Indigenous people of the Great Plains
The Lakota are a Native American people. Also known as the Teton Sioux, they are one of the three prominent subcultures of the Sioux people, with the Eastern Dakota (Santee) and Western Dakota. Their current lands are in North and South Dakota. They speak Lakȟótiyapi — the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Lakota leader (1831–1890)
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. Sitting Bull was killed by Indian agency police accompanied by U.S. officers and supported by U.S. troops on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation
Native American reservation in the United States
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota controls the Standing Rock Reservation , which straddles the border between North and South Dakota in the United States, and is inhabited by ethnic "Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaksa…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Wounded Knee Massacre
1890 South Dakota massacre of Lakota
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army. More than 250 people of the Lakota were killed and 51 wounded. Some estimates placed the number of dead as high as 300.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)