Sitting Bull follows the Hunkpapa Lakota leader whose spiritual authority and political influence made him a central figure in resistance to United States expansion. It traces his opposition to treaties that surrendered Lakota land and his role in the movement that gathered before the Little Bighorn campaign.
The biography follows exile in Canada, surrender, imprisonment and participation in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. It concludes with his death during an attempted arrest in 1890, placing the event within federal fears surrounding the Ghost Dance and the approach of the Wounded Knee massacre.
