Sitting Bull: The Legendary Lakota Warrior | Wild West Documentary

The iconography of the American frontier wouldn’t be what it is today without the fearsome figures and various folk heroes both celebrated and reviled over the course of the last 150 years of the country’s history. These iconic and infamous men and women range from belligerent bandits and the courageous lawmen that chased them down, to the cowboys and Indigenous Americans that took their turns firing warning shots at the other until the entire territory was rife with violence and sabotage, with a few peacekeepers and honorable heroes sprinkled in. One such figure was none other than the legendary war chief and former-warrior-turned-leader Sitting Bull himself. Once the son of a Lakota warrior and commander of the Great Sioux War, Sitting Bull transformed into one of the most discussed, complex, and undeniably popular figures of old west lore. Regardless of his exploits and defense of the Sioux’s ancestral lands, Sitting Bull lived a life emblematic of so many ideas and themes saturating the way we tal