| 词汇 | sitting bull |
| 词源 | Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull (1834–90) was the great American Indian warrior and chief of the Hunkpapa who defeated Custer at Little Big Horn in 1876. In America, the buffalo (as our bison is commonly called) is responsible for all the bull names (Sit- ting Bull, White Bull, etc.) of the great plains Indian chiefs and warriors. |
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