Liberating Duluth

HEROS OF HISTORY No. 1: SITTING BULL

We've all heard the name, but what's the story behind the man?

Sitting Bull is a legendary hero known for epic courage during battle, even smoking a pipe on the front lines. He was born in 1831 near Grand River, Dakota Territory in what is today South Dakota.

Having a vision of soldiers "as thick as grasshoppers," falling upside down into the Lakota camp, his people understood the foreshadowing of a major victory in which many soldiers would be killed. He and the Northern Cheyenne defeated the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Custer on June 25, 1876, annihilating Custer's battalion and seeming to bear out Sitting Bull's prophetic vision.