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Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, was killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota by U.S. Indian agency police.
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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)
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)
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)
South Dakota
U.S. state
South Dakota is a double landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Dakota Sioux tribe, which comprises a large portion of the population—with nine reservations in the state—and has…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Indian agency police
US policemen enforcing federal laws on natives
Indian agency police were policemen hired by the United States government’s Indian agents during the late 19th and early 20th century, it was assigned to members of American Indian tribes. It was the duty of Indian agency police to enforce federal laws, the laws of the state…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)