Sitting Bull: The Legendary Lakota Warrior | Wild West Documentary

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The iconography of the American frontier wouldn’t be what it is today without the fearsome figures and various folk heroes both celebrated and reviled over the course of the last 150 years of the country’s history. These iconic and infamous men and women range from belligerent bandits and the courageous lawmen that chased them down, to the cowboys and Indigenous Americans that took their turns firing warning shots at the other until the entire territory was rife with violence and sabotage, with a few peacekeepers and honorable heroes sprinkled in. One such figure was none other than the legendary war chief and former-warrior-turned-leader Sitting Bull himself.

Once the son of a Lakota warrior and commander of the Great Sioux War, Sitting Bull transformed into one of the most discussed, complex, and undeniably popular figures of old west lore. Regardless of his exploits and defense of the Sioux’s ancestral lands, Sitting Bull lived a life emblematic of so many ideas and themes saturating the way we talk about Native Americans on the frontier and into the modern age.

In order to gain a better understanding of how the chief of an entire Indigenous nation became synonymous with the term “old west” and the focal point for countless other native leaders fighting both beside and against him, we present to you a closer inspection into the tales and times of one of the most infamous Native Americans in all of history. This is Tȟatȟáŋka, colloquially known as Sitting Bull, and one of the brightest minds of 19th century America.

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