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Sitting Bull Tatna iyotake (Sitting Bull) was a leader of the Hunkapapa of the Teton Lakota. Throughout his life, he distrusted the Euro-American newcomers. In the summer of 1875, he had a dream that foretold of a resounding defeat for the United States Army. On June 25, 1876, his prophecy was fulfilled when George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Calvary into the Sioux and Cheyenne camps on the Greasy Grass River (the Little Big Horn). After the battle, Sitting Bull led his people to Canada in a continued effort to resist government orders to settle on a reservation. The Canadian government refused to accept official responsibility for them and, faced with starvation, many soon returned to the Standing Rock Agency in North Dakota. Sitting Bull was killed in 1890 when soldiers and Native police came to arrest him as tension once more grew between the Sioux and the Americans.
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