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Wrong Sitting Bull
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The Hunkpapa holy man Sitting Bull is not in this picture. Note that the legend denotes the man as "Mi-na-kon-you," a transliteration of what we spell in modern English as "Minneconjou." This is the picture of an OGLALLA chief who, to distinguish him from his more famous counterpart, is usually referred to as "Young Sitting Bull." Young SB died at the end of 1876; the more famous SB was killed by police in 1890, leading to the Wounded Knee massacre.
The distinction between the two is clarified by Nebraska historian Marie Sandoz in a compilation called Selected Shorter Writings viewable on GoogleBooks here:
Note that it is the Oglalla Younger who goes to Washington, not the older Hunkpapa who was a key figure in the 1876 war and the battle of the Little Bighorn.
This image is being misidentified across the web as a picture of the Hunkpapa, who was a much taller and darker person than the figure depicted here, as the many authentic portraits on Commons and on the web indicate. I am removing this image from the Wikipedia article on the Hunkpapa.
- I would add that the link under "other versions" is to an auction house, which is not a reliable academic source - especially since it is attempting to inflate the value of the potential sale by equating the Sitting Bull in the picture with the more famous chief. This is either exactly the kind of mistake that makes profit-driven businesses not reliable sources - or a conscious fraud.Sensei48 (talk) 06:07, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
