A portrait of Cody and Sitting Bull together bears the title "Foes in '76 — Friends in '85." The reality was a little more complicated. Sitting Bull, 1885. Library of Congress.

Sitting Bull—known as Jumping Badger until an act of audacious bravery got him rechristened, ... and his portrait here might well be an inspiration, especially if one is inclined to watch that way.

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1800: Sitting Bull portrait on a 19th-century cabinet card. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) "Autosomal DNA is our non-gender-specific DNA.

Starring Jessica Chastain, right, as Catherine Weldon and Michael Greyeyes, left, as Sitting Bull, "Woman Walks Ahead" depicts Weldon's journey to the Dakotas in the late 1800s to paint a portrait ...

Susanna White's 'Woman Walks Ahead' tells the story of Caroline Weldon (Jessica Chastain), a painter from New York who travels to South Dakota to do a portrait of Sitting Bull.

MarketWatch.com What this 1800s film about Sitting Bull says about terrorism in 2017 and the Dakota Access Pipeline In ‘Woman Walks Ahead,’ Jessica Chastain plays real-life figure Catherine ...

A portrait of Cody and Sitting Bull together bears the title "Foes in '76 — Friends in '85." The reality was a little more complicated. Sitting Bull, 1885. Library of Congress.

One of the refreshing things about “Sitting Bull,” the History Channel’s two-night, four-hour documentary on the Sioux leader, is its attempt at some kind of balance amid the hosannas.