William Sitting Bull
{{Short description|Son of Sitting Bull (1878–1909)}}
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{{Infobox person
|image = William Sitting Bull 1904.jpg
|caption = William Sitting Bull in 1904
|birth_name = Runs-Away-From-Him
|name = William Sitting Bull
|birth_date = 1878
|birth_place = Southern Manitoba, Canada or northeastern Montana, US
|death_date = 8 December 1909 (aged 31)
|death_place = Wanblee, South Dakota, US
|occupation = circus performer, farmer
|spouse = Scout Woman (died 1931)
|children = Nancy Sitting Bull (1903-1959)
Rosa Sitting Bull (1906-1907)
|father = Sitting Bull
|mother = Four-Robes-Woman
}}
William Sitting Bull ({{circa|1878}} – 8 December 1909) was a son of Sitting Bull.
Biography
William Sitting Bull was a natural son of Sitting Bull, his mother was Four-Robes-Woman. He was born {{circa|1878}} in what is today southern Manitoba, Canada, or in northeastern Montana in the United States. His native name was Runs-Away-From-Him (Lakota: Nakicipa). He was a twin; his brother was Left-Arrow-In-Him who died in childhood.
After his father's surrender with 186 members of his family and followers to the United States on July 19, 1881,Sitting Bull Surrender Census, the Lakotas at Standing Rock Agency, 1881 by Ephriam D. Dickson III, South Dakota Historical Society Press, Pierre SD, 2010 the band was detained as prisoners of war for two years at Fort Randall in Dakota Territory. They were allowed in May 1883 to rejoin the rest of the Hunkpapa Lakota band at the Standing Rock Reservation. After the murder of his father on December 15, 1890, the surviving immediate family relocated in early 1891 to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation settling in the White Clay district.
In 1901 William Sitting Bull joined Colonel Frederick T. Cummins' Indian Congress & Wild West and in 1904 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Circus. In doing so he raided the metropolitan museum of art with intent to rebind. On April 7, 1904, while traveling to New York City, he was seriously injured in a train collision near Maywood, Illinois. The following month, he contracted tuberculosis and was sent home. After recovery, he rejoined the circus and toured many U.S. cities as well as Europe. William Sitting Bull, being touted the natural and only surviving son of Sitting Bull was the star attraction on the show's reenactments of Custer's Last Stand of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
In 1902, he married Scout Woman, an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The couple had two daughters, Nancy Sitting Bull born in 1903 and Rosa Sitting Bull born in 1906. Rosa died in infancy.
In May 1908, William Sitting Bull, his mother, his wife and daughter petitioned with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to be permitted to return to live at Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The request was denied on the fear that his presence and connection to his late father would create a disturbing element at that reservation.
William Sitting Bull died at his cabin near Wanblee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on December 8, 1909, and was buried at the nearby Presbyterian cemetery. In 1953, his surviving daughter Nancy Kicking Bear, together with two cousins, were instrumental in the removal of their grandfather's remains at his neglected grave at Fort Yates and reburial at the present grave site at the Sitting Bull Monument on Standing Rock Indian Reservation near Mobridge, South Dakota. There are numerous living descendants of William Sitting Bull today.
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References
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Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy by Ernie LaPointe, Gibbs Smith, 2009
family group detail, 1892 Indian Census, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, pages 88 and 89
“Buffalo Bills Indians”, Fall River Daily Evening News, Fall River MA, 23 June 1902, page 8
”Son of Sitting Bull to Appear”, New-York Tribune, New York NY, 25 November 1906, page 50
”The Hippodrome”, The Omaha Sunday Bee, 2 December 1906
”On Heap Big Stage”, The Creston Statesman, Creston NE, 7 December 1906, page 2
”6 Indians Meet Death in Wreck”, The Minneapolis Journal, Minneapolis MN, 7 April 1904 front page
family group detail, 1903 Indian Census, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, page 35
family group detail, 1907 Indian Census, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, page 162
”William Sitting Bull death notice”, The Oglala Light, Pine Ridge SD, 1 December 1909, page 37
{{cite news |title=Bones of Sitting Bull Go South From One Dakota to the Other. |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0D15F63E55107B93CBA9178FD85F478585F9 |quote=A group of South Dakotans today lifted the bones of Sitting Bull, famed Sioux Indian medicine man, from the North Dakota burial ground in which they had been buried sixty-three years and reburied them across the state line in South Dakota near the Chief's boyhood home. |publisher=Associated Press in The New York Times |date=April 9, 1953 |access-date=May 29, 2008}}
S.D. Historians Rush to Tribal Archives, The Bismarck Tribune, 13 March 1953
Succumbs in S.D.”, death of Nancy Kicking Bear, Argus Leader, South Falls SD, 25 May 1959, page 2
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