Sitting Bull Autographs
Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake ; c. 1831–37 – 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. Col. George Armstrong Custer on June 25, 1876, annihilating Custer's battalion and seeming to fulfill Sitting Bull's prophetic vision. Sitting Bull's leadership inspired his people to a major victory. In response, the U.S. government sent thousands more soldiers to the area, forcing many of the Lakota to surrender over the next year. Sitting Bull refused to surrender, and in May 1877, he led his band north to Wood Mountain, North-West Territories, now Saskatchewan. He remained there until 1881, when he and most of his band returned to U.S. territory and surrendered to U.S. forces.
After working as a performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, Sitting Bull returned to the Standing Rock Agency in South Dakota. Because of fears that Sitting Bull would use his influence to support the Ghost Dance movement, Indian Service agent James McLaughlin at Fort Yates ordered his arrest. During an ensuing struggle between Sitting Bull's followers and the agency police, Sitting Bull was shot in the chest and head by Standing Rock policemen Lieutenant Bull Head (Tatankapah, Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Pȟá) and Red Tomahawk (Marcelus Chankpidutah, Lakota: Čhaŋȟpí Dúta), after the police were fired upon by Sitting Bull's supporters. His body was taken to nearby Fort Yates for burial. In 1953, his Lakota family exhumed what were believed to be his remains, reburying them near Mobridge, South Dakota, near his birthplace.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Sitting Bull (SITTING BULL Rare Signature of Sioux Chief Battle Little Bighorn General Custer) was sold in January 2015 for $7,200.00 while the cheapest item (Arrest Sitting Bull by Douglas C. Jones SIGNED first edition hardcover dustjacke) found a new owner for $3.13 in April 2023. The month with the most items sold (7) was July 2025 with an average selling price of $49.95 for an autographed item of Sitting Bull. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in February 2015 with $282.15 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $4.52 was December 2009. In average, an autographed item from Sitting Bull is worth $30.00.
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‘Lakota America’ Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center (10/22/2019): Pekka Hamalainen’s impressive history is also a quarrel with how history — especially the history of indigenous Americans — has been told and sold. 
