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Jun 24, 2019 · Sometimes the curious, behind-the-scenes stories of museum artifacts are as intriguing as the actual pieces. In the little-known story of a painting of Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull hanging in the State Museum, the art, the subject, and the artist all share remarkable roles. Sitting Bull portrait by Caroline Weldon 1890 (SHSND 12319)
Sitting Bull ( Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake [tˣaˈtˣə̃ka ˈijɔtakɛ]; [4] c. 1837 – December 15, 1890) [5] [6] was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. Sitting Bull was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to ...
Sep 25, 2019 · Her painting was hanging in Sitting Bull’s cabin on Dec. 15, 1890. On that morning a gunfight broke out when Indian agency police came to arrest him, and Sitting Bull and others were killed. Shortly afterward, a police officer whose brother had just been killed smashed the painting with his rifle, tearing the canvas.
- He was originally named 'Jumping Badger.' Sitting Bull was born around 1831 into the Hunkpapa people, a Lakota Sioux tribe that roamed the Great Plains in what is now the Dakotas.
- Sitting Bull was credited with several legendary acts of bravery. Sitting Bull born circa 1831. Sitting Bull was renowned for his skill in close-quarters fighting and collected several red feathers representing wounds sustained in battle.
- He was the first man to become chief of the entire Lakota Sioux nation. In the 1860s, Sitting Bull emerged as one of the fiercest opponents of white encroachment on Sioux land.
- Sitting Bull had a spiritual premonition of his most famous victory. Though mainly remembered as a warrior and political leader, Sitting Bull was also a Lakota “Wichasa Wakan,” a type of holy man believed to have the gift of spiritual insight and prophecy.
Swiss, American. Caroline Weldon (born Susanna Karolina Faesch; December 4, 1844 – March 15, 1921) was a Swiss-American artist and activist with the National Indian Defense Association. Weldon became a confidante and the personal secretary to the Lakota Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull during the time when Plains Indians had adopted the Ghost ...
Works of art Ledger drawings Pictographs Newsclippings Place: North America Date: 1882-1923 Scope and Contents: The collection consists of a ledger book, now partially disbound, containing twenty-two (22) drawings by Sitting Bull and related material. The drawings depict Sitting Bull's war deeds, and each image is signed by him.
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Jun 30, 2019 · After Chief Sitting Bull's forces defeated American troops at Little Bighorn in Montana, he took refuge for four years (1877-1881) in the Wood Mountain area in southwest Saskatchewan.
