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Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (born 1831)

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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…
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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…
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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…
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