In Mobridge, South Dakota you will have the opportunity to view the Sitting Bull Monument. The Sitting Bull reburial was back in 1953 to the area that had been home to him.
The gravesite of the Sioux Indian, Chief Sitting Bull, leader of the Sioux tribe is one you should visit.
He was born on the Grand River a few miles west of Mobridge in March 1831. He was not a hereditary chief, but he acquired whatever power possessed through personal qualities which appealed to his people. Sitting Bull’s tragic end came at the very place he was born. The great Sioux leader was shot by Indian police in 1890 while resisting arrest and his body was placed in a simple grave without ceremony in Ft. Yates, ND. Mobridge became nationally known when, on a dark and stormy April night in 1953, relatives of Sitting Bull to a gravesite just west across the river from Mobridge.
Location: The access road to the monument is 4 miles off the junction of US Hwy 12 on SD Hwy 1806.
The gravesite is open to the public free of charge.
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