Mentored by his uncle, a healer and spiritual leader, the boy killed his ... efforts to negotiate or contain him. Sitting Bull refused to join other Lakota bands, the Yanktonai Dakota and Arapaho ...

the legendary Lakota leader Sitting Bull, who is portrayed in dramatic reenactments as an adult by Kul Wičaša Lakota actor Michael Spears (Dances With Wolves, 1923). Narrated by Oglala Lakota ...

In filming this, I really learned a lot about him as a person. I learned how incredibly smart and level-headed he was in an apocalyptic reality,” -- Michael Spears, Bozeman ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have successfully identified a living descendant of the Lakota leader Sitting Bull by analyzing fragments of DNA. Using advanced methods, the ...

One of the refreshing things about “Sitting Bull,” the History Channel’s two-night, four-hour documentary on the Sioux leader ... many interviewed here, the Lakota (Sitting Bull’s group ...

A circa 1883 photograph of Lakota leader Sitting Bull Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On December 15, 1890, Major James McLaughlin of the United States Indian Service wired a telegram back to ...

The Sitting Bull docuseries is a four-hour exploration of a Hunkpapa Lakota leader’s life story. It premieres on the History Channel on May 27, 2025, at 9 p.m.

Federal agents hoped the trips to St. Paul would impress Sitting Bull so he'd adopt the white man's ways. The Lakota leader, meanwhile, used his visit to lobby for more food for his starving ...

The actor, who grew up in South Dakota but has spent much of his life working out of Bozeman, is playing the titular Hunkpapa Lakota leader in “Sitting Bull,” the History Channel’s two-part ...

Narrated by Mo Brings Plenty, Sitting Bull is a four-hour documentary event charting the extraordinary life of the renowned leader of the Lakota people. During the mid-19th century, American ...

Sitting Bull Documentary: A new four-hour docuseries about Sitting Bull is coming to the History Channel, showing the true story of the Native American leader in a way that’s never been done before.

As noted by one expert among the many interviewed here, the Lakota (Sitting Bull’s group among the Sioux ... It further humanizes the story of a people and a leader whose devotion to duty ...