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Curt Eriksmoen continues the story of Gall in today's "Did You Know That" column. Written By: Curt Eriksmoen | × Gall as photographed in 1881 by David Francis Barry at Fort Buford, N.D. Public Domain / Special to The Forum Up until 1863, relations between white people and the Lakota Indians, in what is now western North Dakota, were very good. Almost all of the Lakota interactions involving white people were with traders, trappers and occasional explorers or artists. The only incident to be called a battle occurred in mid-July 1851, southeast of present-day Minot, and it wa...

True West Magazine The Sioux chief Sitting Bull was arguably the greatest Indian chief of all the tribes in the American West in the 19th century. In the decades since his death, his name has become known to most Americans and treasured by many as the supreme embodiment of Sioux values. He lived from 1831 to 1890. – D.F. Barry, Courtesy Library of Congress – The Sioux Leader’s Final Flight to Freedom Sunday, June 25, 1876, was a clear, hot, sunny day in the valley of Montana’s Greasy Grass River, which the white man’s maps labeled the Little Bighorn. Six tribal circles of Lakotas an...