Sitting Bull Items Returned to Family

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Sitting Bull Items Returned to Family
Associated Press | December 06, 2007

WASHINGTON - Mementos of Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, whose braves won one of the American Indians' greatest victories against U.S. Soldiers, were returned to his family Wednesday at a ceremony in a quiet corner of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

"I appreciate from my heart what the Smithsonian has done," said Ernie LaPointe, Sitting Bull's great-grandson.

"My great-grandfather stood for the freedom of the land, he stood for his people, and he was murdered for this," LaPointe said. "He stood his ground until the end."

A leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, Sitting Bull became famous as the leader who defeated Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. AllU263 of Custer's Soldiers died in the battle I

Sitting Bull was killed while being arrested by tribal police in 1890.EA U.S. Army doctor took a lock of hair and Sitting Bull' leggings, without permission, and later donated them to the museum.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,157679,00.html

[Mendocino]

1. Now maybe Skull and Bones

will do the right thing.