Where is Sitting Bull buried?
>–Submitted by Robby J. High on a bluff across the Missouri River from this north-central South Dakota town sits a bust of Sitting Bull, marking the famous American Indian leader’s burial site. The memorial is in sorry shape. The nose is chipped, perhaps from potshots or souvenir seekers, as is the inscription on the granite pillar supporting it: “Tatanka Iyotake, Sitting Bull, 1831-1890.” Broken beer bottles and trash are strewn about the monument’s concrete base. That’s about to change, thanks to two South Dakota men who have purchased the site. Bryan Defender of McLaughlin and Rhett Albers of Mobridge bought the 40-acre property from James Heupel of Oregon in April. Heupel said his father, Dan, was part of a group that traveled to Fort Yates, N.D., in 1953 and helped retrieve Sitting Bull’s remains for reburial on land he owned within the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Sitting Bull rose to prominence as a leader of Indian resistance against the U.S. Army in the 1870s, which culm
