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Sitting Bull  

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  • Sitting Bull (Tatanka Yotanke) (c.1831–1890), a Hunkpapa Sioux, was a major military, spiritual, and political leader of his people in the 1800s. Born near what is now Bullhead, South Dakota, by age twenty-two Sitting Bull was leading raids on the Hunkpapas' enemies as the head of a warrior society called the Strong Hearts. [Source: Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law; Sitting Bull]

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  • Tatanka Iyotanka

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