Years later he joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. A portrait of Cody and Sitting Bull together bears the title "Foes in '76 — Friends in '85." The reality was a little more complicated.

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The museum in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody has acquired a one-of-a-kind portrait of Gen. George Armstrong Custer created by pop artist ...

At birth, Sitting Bull was named Jumping Badger. But his nickname as a child was Hunkesi, meaning 'Slow', because he always took time to think before answering a question. He was finally assigned ...

Sitting Bull famously led 1,500 Native American warriors at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 A sample of hair belonging to the legendary 19th century Native American leader Sitting Bull ...

Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux ...

Where Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Defeated Colonel Custer Custer's Last Stand took place at the Little Bighorn River, where he led over two hundred soldiers into battle against thousands of ...

“They show a proud people during a period of difficult and often painful transition,” Rod Slemmons writes in “The Standing Rock Portraits,” a new book featuring Fiske’s work from the ear ...

The nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House, this exhibition lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery's mission to tell the American story through the ...

On December 15, 1890, U.S. Indian policemen arrested Sitting Bull in an effort to quell the “messiah craze” of the native ceremonies. The arrest turned unintentionally violent in ways that ...