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It follows the life of the legendary Hunkpapa Lakota chief, detailing seminal moments and key figures in Native American | dHNfVzlfXzMzNWtDQlU

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00:00Sitting Bull grew up in a time of prosperity for the Lakota people.

00:06But people started flooding the west.

00:08Native people see it as an invasion from the east.

00:14Sitting Bull is not some distant historic figure.

00:18This is a real person who had a transformative effect.

00:30This is a real person who had a chance to win the war.

00:49Sitting Bull suddenly becomes front page news.

00:51Custer's mission was seek and destroy.

00:54But Sitting Bull believed we have the force, we have the power, we have the medicine to win this war.

01:00Sitting Bull represents resistance.

01:06He never stopped being Lakota.

01:09Sitting Bull was not able to accept any alternative other than complete freedom.

01:17Sitting Bull, documentary event, premieres Tuesday, May 27th at 9.

01:21Part of History Honors 250, only on the History Channel.