Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Sitting Bull of the Custer Massacre
- Head and shoulders portrait of Chief Sitting Bull, (Tatanka Iyotake) (c. 1831-1890) Native American, Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, wearing a felt hat with a Monarch butterfly above the brim, shirt with fringe, fur skin and a bandana.
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Hunkpapa Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--1890-1900.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- [1890?]
- Tatonkaiyotonka, Sitting Bull The above is a true photo and autograph of "Sitting Bull," the Sioux Chief at the Custer Massacre
- Sitting studio portrait of Sitting Bull, a Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux). He has a blanket and pipe in his lap, wears a long sleeved, light colored shirt, and braids in his hair. He is best known for the role he played at the battle of Little...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Hunkpapa Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- 1882?
- Rain In The Face, Sioux Chief
- Head and shoulders portrait of a Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) man, identified as Rain In The Face. He wears an animal skin vest, bead necklaces, a kerchief, and eagle feathers in his hair. He is reputed to have been the man who killed Custer at...
- Dakota Indians--1860-1880.; Hunkpapa Indians--1860-1880.; Indians of North America--1860-1880.; Rain in the Face, ca. 1835-1905.
- [between 1865 and 1880?]
- Sitting Bull
- Seated portrait of Native American, Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, Chief Sitting Bull wearing a single feather, braids wrapped in fur, and skin shirt with fur and leggings, holding a tobacco pipe (calumet.)
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Hunkpapa Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Teton Indians--1880-1890.; Calumets--1880-1890.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890]
- Walking Shooter
- Seated studio portrait of Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) man, Walking Shooter. He wears three eagle feathers and three arrows attached to a scarf around his head, long metal earrings, a kerchief, a fringed buckskin shirt with beaded bands, a...
- Dakota Indians--1870-1880.; Hunkpapa Indians--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--1870-1880.; Clothing & dress--1870-1880.; Walking Shooter.
- [1872?]
- One Bull
- Sitting studio portrait of a Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) man, identified as One Bull. He has a blanket wrapped around his waist and wears a striped shirt, bracelets, arm bands, hair pipe choker, and cloth-bound pony tails. In his right hand,...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Hunkpapa Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; One Bull.
- 1882
- Sitting Bull medicine man and Council Chief of the Uncapapa Sioux
- Studio portrait of Sitting Bull, a Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) man. He wears a feather in his hair.
- Dakota Indians--1870-1890.; Hunkpapa Indians--1870-1890.; Indians of North America--1870-1890.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- [between 1940 and 1960?]
- Sitting Bull (Ta-Ton-ka-I-yo-ton-ka) The Sioux Chief in command at the Custer Massacre.
- Studio portrait (sitting) of Sitting Bull, a Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) man. He wears a blanket on his lap, a metal bead bandolier, fur pelts that cover his braids, and a feather in his hair. He holds a wooden pipe decorated with feathers.
- Dakota Indians--1870-1890.; Hunkpapa Indians--1870-1890.; Indians of North America--1870-1890.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- [between 1877 and 1890]
- Sitting Bull, two wives and three papooses
- Sitting Bull, his two wives, and three children, Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) man, women, and children, pose near a group of tepees. Sitting Bull sits on a wooden chair and holds a beaded tobacco bag and a wooden pipe. His wives are wrapped in...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Hunkpapa Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Children--1880-1890.; Tipis--1880-1890.; Women--1880-1890.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890--Family.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- 1882
- Sitting Bull, his wife, and twins
- Sitting Bull and his family, Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) man, woman, and children, pose with a white woman and girl near a tepee. A white man on horseback stands nearby. The Native Americans are wrapped in blankets. The white woman wears a hat...
- Dakota Indians--1880-1890.; Hunkpapa Indians--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--1880-1890.; Children--1880-1890.; Horseback riding--1880-1890.; Military officers--1880-1890.; Tipis--1880-1890.; Women--1880-1890.; Sitting Bull,...
- [1882]
- One Bull, nephew of Sitting Bull, dancing Sun Dance at Little Eagle South Dakota One Bull was 81 years of age, his brother White Bull, gave sunrise prayer for dance on this first morning.
- One Bull, a Native American Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux man, dances inside a round brush arbor shelter, spectators look on, Little Eagle, South Dakota. He has long gray hair and is bare-chested, he wears loose white leggings and a head wreath with...
- Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Little Eagle--1930-1940.; Hunkpapa Indians--Dance--South Dakota--Little Eagle--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Little Eagle--1930-1940.; Little Eagle (S.D.)--1930-1940.; Ceremonial dancers--South...
- August 1936
- Chief Sitting Bull Sioux
- Studio portrait (sitting) of Sitting Bull, a Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) man. He wears a quill-work bandolier, vest, and feathers in his hair.
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Hunkpapa Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1890-1900.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- [between 1895 and 1900]
- Spotted Bear, Hunapapa Sioux, in my old studio at Fort Keogh, 1878
- Studio portrait (crouching) of Spotted Bear, a Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) man. He holds a wooden pipe and wears a blanket and metal earrings.
- Dakota Indians--1870-1880.; Hunkpapa Indians--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--1870-1880.; Tribal chiefs--1870-1880.; Spotted Bear.
- [1878]
- On the war-path water leaves no trail.
- A Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) man leads his horse across a stream. He wears leggings, a fringed bandolier, tomahawk in his belt, necklace made of teeth, and a feather roach.
- Dakota Indians--War--1870-1880.; Hunkpapa Indians--War--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--War--1870-1880.; Warriors--1870-1880.
- [between 1940 and 1960]
- Sitting Bull
- Sitting studio portrait of Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux) Sitting Bull. He wears a fringed hide coat with decorative stitching, necklaces, a pendant, fur-bound braids, and a feather in his hair.
- Dakota Indians--1890-1910.; Hunkpapa Indians--1890-1910.; Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Clothing & dress--1890-1910.; Tribal chiefs--1890-1910.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Funeral of Indian police during the trouble of 1891
- View of the funeral of the Standing Rock Agency police in a civilian cemetery South Dakota, shows a group of whites and Native Americans, including agency police in uniform, around the graves and a tall wooden cross. The agency police were sent to...
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Funeral rites & ceremonies--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Indian reservation...
- [December 1890]
- Funeral of Indian police during the trouble of 1890
- View of the funeral of the Standing Rock Agency police who were killed during the attempted arrest of Sitting Bull, a Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux), South Dakota. The men were buried in a civilian cemetery near the agency in South Dakota.
- Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890--Homes & haunts.; United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency.--People.; Dakota Indians--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Indian reservation police--South Dakota--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--South...
- 1890
- Sitting Bull's grave
- View of the Sitting Bull memorial, a concrete slab with corner posts and center rock stack at one end, on the plains of South Dakota, erected in honor of Sitting Bull, a Native American Hunkpapa Sioux Chief.
- Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890--Monuments.; Dakota Indians--Commemoration--South Dakota--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--South Dakota--1930-1940.; Monuments & memorials--South Dakota--1930-1940.
- [1936]
- The capture and killing of Sitting Bull
- Shows the arrest attempt of Sitting Bull on December 15, 1890 and the fight that broke out between Native American Sioux and U.S. Army soldiers wearing uniforms. Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader was killed by Agency police.
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Fighting--1890-1900.; Soldiers--1890-1900.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890--Death & burial.
- 1890
- Gen. Miles and Buffalo Bill viewing hostile Indian camp near Pine Ridge, S.D., Jan. 16, '91.
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody stops his horse on a ridge near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, to point toward something with his left hand. In the center midground, also on horseback, is Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, who employed Cody to...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Horses--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1891?]
- Wax figures
- Three men, including Reverend Jim Airey, Houston City Councilman Phil Hamburger and Houston Mayor Oscar Holcomb, pose with five life-sized, wax figures depicting, from left: Judge Roy Bean "Law West of the Pecos"; Jefferson Davis, President of the...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Statues.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890--Statues.; Airey, Jim.; Bean, Roy, d. 1903--Statues.; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Statues.; Hamburger, Phil.; Holcomb, Oscar.; Williamson, Willie--Statues.;...
- [1940?]
- William F. Cody with group
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody stands in the center of the back row of a group portrait in a studio. Sitting in front of Cody is Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, who toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885. The others in the...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Crow Eagle.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.; Halsey, William.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1885?]
- Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull pose for a full-length studio portrait. Sitting Bull wears a long, feather headdress and a buckskin shirt. Cody wears a wide-brimmed, Stetson hat, a shirt embroidered with...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1897?]
- Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull pose for a full-length studio portrait. Image is a copy of original photograph by W. Notman in Montreal in 1885 and later copyrighted by D.F. Barry. Sitting Bull wears a...
- Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1885?]
- Sitting Bull
- Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull poses for a bust portrait while touring with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. He wears his hair in braids with fur wrapped around their ends and has an embroidered sash across his chest. A scarf is pinned around his...
- Dakota Indians--Clothing & dress.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1885?]
- Sitting Bull
- Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull poses for a bust portrait while touring with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. He wears his hair in braids with fur wrapped around their ends and has an embroidered sash across his chest. A scarf is pinned around his...
- Dakota Indians--Clothing & dress.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1885?]
- Sitting Bull
- Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull poses for a half-length portrait while touring with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. He wears a feather headdress and has his hair in braids with fur wrapped around their ends. He also has an embroidered sash across...
- Dakota Indians--Clothing & dress.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1885?]
- Sitting Bull & Buffalo Bill
- Hand-colored postcard of full-length studio portrait of William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull. Image is a copy of original photograph by W. Notman in Montreal in 1885 and later copyrighted by D.F. Barry....
- Dakota Indians--1880-1900.; Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- [1885?]
- White Bull, nephew of Sitting Bull, at Little Eagle Sun Dance, South Dakota
- A white man shakes the hand of White Bull, a Native American, Minniconjou Lakota Sioux man, wearing buckskin shirt and leggings, long feather headdress, and a hair pipe breastplate, at the Sun Dance, Little Eagle, South Dakota,
- Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Little Eagle--1930-1940.; Hunkpapa Indians--South Dakota--Little Eagle--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Little Eagle--1930-1940.; Little Eagle (S.D.)--1930-1940.; Shaking hands--South Dakota--Little...
- August 1936
- Western History Subject Index
- Indians. Artists. Hunt, Bonnie Jo
- Western History Subject Index
- Indians. Artists. Hunt, Bonnie Jo