Sitting Bull Falls in springs further down the canyon or joins the Pecos Valley underground water supply. The area around Sitting Bull Falls is the remnant of a reef system known as the Capitan Great Barrier Reef dating from the Permian period. Approximately 250 million years ago, the region was located near the edge of an inland sea. The origin of the name Sitting Bull Falls remains uncertain. One version holds that the falls were named after a Sioux medicine man. The Apache name for the area was gostahanagunti which means "hidden gulch". A number of hiking trails allow visitors access to the
Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation remains from white grave robbers. Most likely Sitting Bull was born near the Turtle Mountains and Anishinaabe. In 1877 Ogima Sitting Bull told General Terry that he was born and raised among the Red River Half-Breeds, which strongly suggests he was Anishinaabe. Ogima Sitting Bull was not the only Indian leader to speak to the whites on October 17, 1877. Each one told the whites "you have treated us bad for the past 64 years," since 1813 or during the War of 1812. Each one also told the whites that they had been driven out of their original country and