Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sitting_bull

1 sense of sitting bull

Sense 1
Sitting Bull -- (a chief of the Sioux; took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States Army troops; he was present at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when the Sioux massacred General Custer's troops (1831-1890))
       INSTANCE OF=> Indian chief, Indian chieftain -- (the leader of a group of Native Americans)
       INSTANCE OF=> Hunkpapa -- (a member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux and who formerly lived in the western Dakotas; they were prominent in resisting the white encroachment into the northern Great Plains)