Sitting Bull Digital Art (Download)

Artist William Notman, 08 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891 Sitter Sitting Bull, c. 1831 - 15 Dec 1890 10 inch x 6.553 inch @400 pixels/inch photograph digital enhancement copyright Van Sverigen Technologies  Sitting Bull c. 1831 – December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement. Before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had a vision in which he saw many soldiers, "as thick as grasshoppers," falling upside down into the Lakota camp, which his people took as a foreshadowing of a major victory in which many soldiers would be killed. About three weeks later, the confederated Lakota tribes with the Northern Cheyenne defeated the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer George Armstrong Custer on June 2