“Sitting Bull: (1834?-1890) Native American chief. Sitting Bull was the leader of the Sioux forces, along with Crazy Horse, during the Sioux War of 1876-1877 and was present at the battle of the Little Big Horn, during which a U.S. contingent under George A. Custer was wiped out. Forced to flee to Canada, he returned to the U.S. in 1881 and was settled on a reservation. He was killed by Indian police.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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