Sitting Bull College Sitting Bull College Sitting Bull College is a tribal college in Fort Yates, North Dakota. It was founded in 1973 by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of the Standing Rock reservation in south-central North Dakota. The Standing Rock Indian Reservation consists of a land base of 2.8 million acres in North Dakota and South Dakota. The SBC campuses are located in Fort Yates, ND and McLaughlin, SD. It is one of 34 tribally controlled colleges nationwide. Sitting Bull College serves as the primary educational institution on the Standing Rock Reservation. In 1973, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council chartered Standing
Alfred E. Bull Quakers and was named to the All-American team in 1895. During a game between Penn and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Bull faced off against All-American and early professional footballer Bemus Pierce. Bull and Pierce faced each other on the line throughout the game, and on a play late in the game Pierce knocked Bull to the ground, and the play went over him. After the play, Pierce, who was a Native American, cried out to the Penn players, "Look, look at Sitting Bull." Bull also rowed for the Penn crew. After graduating from Penn, Bull served as head football