![]() While no one knows for certain where Sitting Bull was buried, there are two official burial sites: Fort Yates, North Dakota, and Mobridge, South Dakota. He was assassinated in 1890 by Indian agency police hired by the U.S. Tatanka-Iyotanka, known as Sitting Bull to many, was a Native American and military leader who famously led 1,500 Lakota warriors to victory over General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution The team then compared Sitting Bull's DNA to samples from LaPointe and other Lakota Sioux - and a match confirmed that LaPointe is his great-grandson and closest living descendant. It took them 14 years to find useable DNA from the 5-centimeter piece of hair. So the scientists searched for autosomal DNA in the genetic fragments they extracted from Sitting Bull's hair. In a press release, Willerslev called Sitting Bull his "hero, ever since I was a boy." So, when he learned LaPointe had received the chief's lock of hair, he saw an opportunity. Hair from Lakota Sioux leader Sitting Bull's scalp lock, from which DNA was extracted for analysis. ![]() They compared the DNA from the lock of hair, which had been transferred to LaPointe's possession in 2007 after new laws on the repatriation of museum objects were passed. LaPointe said that "over the years, many people have tried to question the relationship that I and my sisters have to Sitting Bull."Ī team of scientists led by Eske Willerslev of the University of Cambridge and Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre published their results in the journal Science Advances. Now, Sitting Bull's lock of hair has been used to prove that a man named Ernie LaPointe is his great-grandson. A lock of hair from legendary Lakota chief Sitting Bull's head had been stored for over a century in Washington's Smithsonian Institution at room temperature in a glass box. ![]()
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