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 Without Bows

Answer · why

B) Head of the Circle

Head of the Circle, also rendered "at the entrance": by tradition the Hunkpapa pitched their lodges at the opening of the camp circle whenever the Sio...

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

Jumping Badger. The name soon gave way to a nickname, Slow, and the boy who carried it killed his first buffalo at the age of ten.

Q 03/05

How did Sitting Bull, at 14, earn his father's name?

A) Surviving a lightning strike

B) Winning a horse race

C) Killing a grizzly bear

D) Counting coup on a Crow warrior

Answer · why

D) Counting coup on a Crow warrior

Counting coup on a Crow warrior. He rode ahead of a raiding party to strike an enemy at close range, and his father marked the deed with a feast, an e...

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 Sitting in Council

D) Bull Who Sits Alone

Answer · why

B) Buffalo Bull Who Sits Down

Buffalo Bull Who Sits Down. To the Lakota it called up a stubborn bull planted on its haunches and refusing to budge; Americans simply shortened it to...

Q 05/05

Which leader's band surrendered in 1877 about 40 miles short of Canada, where they hoped to join Sitting Bull?

A) Geronimo

B) Chief Joseph

C) Quanah Parker

D) Red Cloud

Answer · why

B) Chief Joseph

Chief Joseph. His Nez Perce had fought a 1,170-mile retreat from Idaho before the army trapped them in the Bear Paw Mountains; a few hundred slipped t...