Saturday, July 16, 2011

Sitting Bull Statue Unveiled at Williston State College -- Heart of the Bakken, North Dakota, USA

This is REALLY cool! I did not know this was going to happen. What a great surprise.

A life-size statue of Chief Sitting Bull was unveiled at the Williston State College this past week.

Link here (regional links break early).
To commemorate the 130th anniversary of his return from Canada and to honor who he was Williston State College unveiled a statue of Sitting Bull outside its Stevens Hall on Saturday.

On July 19, 1881 Sitting Bull presented himself at Fort Buford after exile in Canada following the Battle at Little Bighorn.
This is the first of three commemorative statues to be unveiled. A second honoring "lewisandclark" will be unveiled next year, and a statue honoring the pioneers of the west will be unveiled two years from now. 

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