Sitting Bull ?-1876

Sitting Bull the Oglala. He was friendly to the whites and interceded with aforementioned club when Red Cloud's men chopped down the flag pole at the Red Cloud Agency in 1874; a small detachment of soldiers were sent to calm things down but were surrounded until Sitting Bull and others intervened. A pictograph to accompany Harry Anderson's article on him in the Nebraska Indian Wars Reader shows him fighting the Pawnee while wearing a horned war bonnet decorated with the head of some sort of bird of prey. He's armed to the teeth with revolver in holster, knife club, rifle and US flag.

While a member of the 1875 delegation, he was given an engraved rifle by the president in recognition of his work at the agency. According to Anderson, after Little Bighorn, he left the agency to go to the 'hostile' Crazy Horse village to retrieve the rifle from a friend who had borrowed it; there, he agreed to accompany a small delegation who were going to meet Miles to discus the possibilities of surrender terms; before this could happen, Crow scouts rushed out and killed them.

Source: Little Big Horn Associates: http://lbha.proboards12.com (by member: grahamew, Apr 6, 2007)