15 December 1890
ViolenceBook sources
Sitting Bull killed during arrest
Standing Rock; Hunkpapa Lakota
Reservation police killed Sitting Bull during an arrest amid efforts to suppress the Ghost Dance movement. His death intensified fear and displacement before Wounded Knee.
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Context / qualification
The arrest involved Native police operating within the federal reservation system.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8