Biography:One of the most famous Native Americans who fought to withstand the tide of white European settlers advancing across the continental United States.
Together with his fellow war leader Crazy Horse, they won the Indians’ most prominent victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against General George Armstrong Custer.
1876-06-25 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"
1877-05-05 Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles
1881-07-20 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops
1976-06-25 26th Berlin International Film Festival: "Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson" wins the Golden Bear
Charles Curtis
Chief Joseph
Crazy Horse
Geronimo
Jim Thorpe
Joseph Brant