What the history books don’t tell us is that the former Hunkpapa Lakota chief Sitting Bull was a man of great compassion, generosity, integrity and courage, and he was murdered on the banks of the Grand River in Michigan.
For more than 15 years – since 1992 when LaPointe was afforded the opportunity to first speak about Sitting Bull at his posthumous induction into the Hall of Fame of American Indian Chiefs at Anadarko, Okla. – LaPointe has traveled across the country, retelling the oral histories of the Lakota tribe and his great-grandfather, as told to him by his mother, the granddaughter of Sitting Bull.
On Monday, LaPointe will deliver a free lecture at 7 p.m. at the Temple College Pavilion during a program, “The Great-Grandson’s Insight on Sitting Bull and the Lakota Culture.”
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