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Sitting Bull

1831 - 1890

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Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake [tˣaˈtˣə̃ka ˈijɔtakɛ]; c. 1831–1837 – December 15, 1890) 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 accompanied by U.S. officers and supported by U.S. troops 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sitting Bull is the 775th most popular politician (down from 586th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from United States (down from 172nd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Politician.

Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux chief who led his people as a war leader in the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. He was killed on December 15, 1890, by Indian police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

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Among politicians, Sitting Bull ranks 775 out of 19,576. Before him are Gordian III, George I of Greece, Valentinian I, Abū Lahab, Nurhaci, and Lech Kaczyński. After him are Manuel I Komnenos, Zakir Husain, Philip the Good, Geronimo, Dilma Rousseff, and Abbas the Great.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Sitting Bull ranks 5. Before him are James Clerk Maxwell, John Stith Pemberton, Frederick III, German Emperor, and Helena Blavatsky. After him are James A. Garfield, Emperor Kōmei, Richard Dedekind, Xianfeng Emperor, Savitribai Phule, Leo von Caprivi, and Lucy Webb Hayes. Among people deceased in 1890, Sitting Bull ranks 4. Before him are Vincent van Gogh, Heinrich Schliemann, and Carlo Collodi. After him are César Franck, Amadeo I of Spain, William III of the Netherlands, Gyula Andrássy, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Joseph Merrick, Carl Bloch, and Henri Nestlé.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sitting Bull ranks 241 out of 20,380. Before him are Clark Gable (1901), Johnny Cash (1932), Truman Capote (1924), Linus Pauling (1901), James Madison (1751), and Richard Chamberlain (1934). After him are Geronimo (1829), George Gershwin (1898), Gregory Peck (1916), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Tim Cook (1960), and Sharon Tate (1943).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Sitting Bull ranks 42. Before him are John Nance Garner (1868), Herbert Hoover (1874), James Monroe (1758), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), Grover Cleveland (1837), and James Madison (1751). After him are Geronimo (1829), John Quincy Adams (1767), James Buchanan (1791), Jerome Powell (1953), Jerry Brown (1938), and Calvin Coolidge (1872).

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