Q 01/05

What does the name of Sitting Bull's band, Hunkpapa, mean in Lakota?

A) Buffalo Hunters

B) Head of the Circle

C) People of the Plains

D) Those Who Camp Apart

Answer · why

B) Head of the Circle

By tradition they set up their lodges at the entrance to the great council circle when the Sioux met.

Q 02/05

What was Sitting Bull named at birth?

A) Slow Bear

B) Little Crow

C) Jumping Badger

D) Standing Elk

Answer · why

C) Jumping Badger

He was nicknamed "Slow" for his careful, unhurried nature.

Q 03/05

How did the 14-year-old future chief earn his father's name?

A) By surviving a lightning strike on the open prairie

B) By winning a horse race against the band's best riders

C) By killing his first buffalo bull with a single arrow

D) By counting coup on a Crow warrior in a horse raid

Answer · why

D) By counting coup on a Crow warrior in a horse raid

His father then took the name Jumping Bull and gave his son an eagle feather, a horse and a buffalo-hide shield.

Q 04/05

What does the Lakota name Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake roughly translate to?

A) Great Sitting Buffalo

B) Buffalo Bull Who Sits Down

C) Bull That Stands Guard

D) Bull Who Faces the Sun

Answer · why

B) Buffalo Bull Who Sits Down

Americans shortened it to Sitting Bull.

Q 05/05

According to family oral tradition reported in 2007, Sitting Bull was born along which river?

A) The Little Bighorn

B) The Yellowstone

C) The Grand

D) The Missouri

Answer · why

B) The Yellowstone

That would put his birthplace south of present-day Miles City, Montana, sometime between 1831 and 1837.