What is another word for Sitting Bull?

Pronunciation: [sˈɪtɪŋ bˈʊl] (IPA)

Sitting Bull, the legendary Native American chief, was known by several alternative names throughout his life. He was born in 1831 as Jumping Badger, but was later given the name Sitting Bull due to the reputation he gained as a skilled warrior and respected leader. Other synonyms for Sitting Bull include Tatanka Iyotake, which means "Sitting Buffalo Bull" in Lakota, and Hunkesni, meaning "Slow" or "Persistent". In addition, he was sometimes referred to as "The Great Sitting Bull," "Grandfather Bull," or simply "Bull." His powerful leadership and unwavering commitment to his people made him one of the most respected figures in Native American history.

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What are the hypernyms for Sitting bull?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    chief, shaman, warrior, person of influence, lakota sioux, prominent figure, historical figure, Chief of the Hunkpapa Sioux, Famous leader, Native American leader, Opponent of the United States government, Resistance leader.

Famous quotes with Sitting bull

  • The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
    Buffalo Bill
  • The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.
    Nelson A. Miles
  • To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.
    Nelson A. Miles
  • The Sioux had been forced to submit to a series of land grabs and to indignities that are almost unbelievable when read about today. ...they were being systematically starved into submission—by the White Bureaucracy—on the little that was left of their reservation in South Dakota. ...From Rosebud, the Ghost Dance spread like prairie fire to the Pine Ridge Sioux and finally to Sitting Bull's people at Standing Rock. The Sioux rebelled; the result was the death of Sitting Bull and the massacre of the Indians (despite their ghost shirts) at Wounded Knee in 1890.
    Peter Farb
  • The ugly fallout from the American Dream has been coming down on us at a pretty consistent rate since Sitting Bull's time — and the only real difference now, with Election Day '72 only a few weeks away, is that we seem to be on the verge of ratifying the fallout and forgetting the Dream itself.
    Hunter S. Thompson

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