Sitting Bull, 1831-1890

LC control no.	n 50025199
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Four Horn, 1831-1890 Hunkesi, 1831-1890 Jumping Badger, 1831-1890 Sitting Buffalo Bull, 1831-1890 Sitting Bull, Dakota chief, 1831-1890 Slon-he, 1831-1890 Slow, 1831-1890 Tah-ton-ka-he-yo-ta-kah, 1831-1890 Tatanka Iyotake, 1831-1890 Tatanka Iyotanka, 1831-1890 Tatanka Yotanka, 1831-1890 Toro Seduto, 1831-1890 Toro Sentado, 1831-1890
Birth date	1831
Death date	1890-12-15
Place of birth	South Dakota
Profession or occupation	Dakota chief
Found in	Garst, D. S. Sitting Bull, 1946. Ency. Amer., 1982: v. 24, p. 852 (Sitting Bull; 1834?-1890; Tatanka Yotanka) Ency. Brit. Microp., 1975: v. 9, p. 243 (Sitting Bull; Tatanka Iyotake; b. ca. 1831) Hodge, F.W. Handbook of American Indians, 1910: v. 2, p. 583 (Sitting Bull; Tatanka Yotanka; Sitting Buffalo Bull; name was Four Horn and was chg. to Sitting Bull when he "made medicine" in 1857; b. 1834) WWWAm, hist. vol., p. 485 (Sitting Bull; b. ca. 1834) MnHi files (hdg: Sitting Bull, Dakota chief, 1837-1890; Sitting Bull, Dakota chief, 1837?-1890) U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Lib. Biog. and hist. index of Am. Indians ... 1966: v. 7, p. 372-375 (Sitting Bull; Tah-ton-ka-he-yo-ta-kah; Tatanka Iyotanka; Tatanka Yotanka) BL database, 20 Dec. 2001 (ref.: Toro Seduto) www.incwell.com/Biographies/SittingBull.html (Sitting Bull, whose Indian name was Tatanka Iyotake, was born in the Grand River region of present-day South Dakota in approximately 1831. His nickname was Hunkesi, meaning "Slow". He was murdered in 1890) Abnett, D. Toro Sentado y la Batalla de Little Bighorn, 2009 Sitting Bull, 2009: ECIP t.p. (Sitting Bull) galley (b. in 1931) family tree (Sitting Bull 1831-1890) Email from E. LaPointe, author of Sitting Bull (Sitting Bull; My Great-Grandfather was born in the month called "can wape to wi" which is May according to the white man's calendar. I was also told he was 59 years old when he was killed ... subtract 59 from 1890 and ... come up with the figure 1831; when a child is born, he/she [is] recorded on a Buffalo hide called a Winter count. On the anniversary of the Childs birth, a progress drawing is made, so this how we learned of our Great-Grandfather's date of birth and age.) Native N. Am. dict., c1996: v. 2, p. 341 (Sitting Bull; Hunkpapa Sioux tribal leader and warrior; b. c. 1831, d. 1890; also known as Tatanka Iyotake, Jumping Badger, "Slow") R. Freedman. Indian chiefs, c1987: p. 116 (Sitting Bull was born in 1831) Wikipedia, May 13, 2009 (Sitting Bull; also nicknamed Slon-he or "Slow"; ca. 1831-December 15, 1890) LC database, Nov. 2, 2017 (hdg.: Sitting Bull, Chief of the Sioux, 1831-1890 (Spirit))