Sitting Bull "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show. Tension between Sitting Bull and Agent McLaughlin increased and each became more wary of the other over several issues including division and sale of parts of the Great Sioux Reservation. During that period, in 1889 Indian Rights Activist Caroline Weldon from Brooklyn, New York, a member of the National Indian Defense Association "NIDA", reached out to Sitting Bull, acting to be his voice, secretary, interpreter and advocate. She joined him, together with her young son Christy at his compound on the Grand River, sharing with him and his family home and hearth. A Paiute Indian,
Sitting Bull Family Foundation the Lakota culture and language to young people. These efforts also incorporate environmental and genealogical teachings for the community as a whole. Sitting Bull Family Foundation is incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under the laws of South Dakota and recognized as a public charity by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), tax exempt under section 501(c)(3). Sitting Bull Family Foundation The Sitting Bull Family Foundation (SBFF) was founded by Ernie Lapointe. According to the organization's website, its mission is to offer the accurate oral history of Sitting Bull through storytelling, by sharing his exemplary cultural and spiritual way of life, and