Sitting Bull – Thathanka Iyotake

2016 – 16″ x 22″ – Pencil on Paper

Once feared and despised by the general population, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull was in reality a man of peace. Over his lifetime, Sitting Bull had witnessed the deceit, broken treaties, genocidal atrocities, disappearance of the people, land, and the buffalo. He was a trained healer and seer of visions. In those difficult time,s he saw peace as the only way his people would survive.