Video: 'A KID EXPLAINS SITTING BULL'

(Monday, December 15, 1890, between 12 noon and 1:00 p.m. local time) — Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against U.S. government policies, and 11 other tribe members were killed today in Grand River, South Dakota, during a confrontation with Indian police.

Due to fears that he would use his influence to support the Ghost Dance movement, Indian Service agent James McLaughlin at Fort Yates ordered Sitting Bull’s arrest on Dec. 14, 1890.

During an ensuing struggle between Sitting Bull’s followers and the agency police, Sitting Bull, believed to be 58 or 59 years old, was shot in the side and head by Standing Rock policemen Lieutenant Bull Head and Red Tomahawk, after the police were fired upon by Sitting Bull’s supporters.