Ernie LaPointe (born 1948) is an Indigenous American Sun Dancer, author, and orator, [4] known for being the great-grandson of Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake), chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota.

2021年10月28日 · South Dakota author Ernie LaPointe and his sisters are now the only known living descendants of the legendary Hunkpapa Lakota warrior Sitting Bull. LaPointe, 73, who identifies as a...

2014年10月9日 · Growing up, Ernie LaPointe was told that he had to keep his ancestry a secret. His mother, Angelique Spotted Horse, told him that if the truth would be known, his life would change forever. He was Sitting Bull’s great-grandson.

2021年10月28日 · Scientists were able to trace family lineages from ancient DNA to verify that 73-year-old Ernie LaPointe of South Dakota is Sitting Bull's great-grandson and closest living descendant.

2021年10月28日 · “I used to feel anger when I was young,” says Ernie LaPointe, who DNA researchers confirmed this week as the great-grandson of the legendary warrior Sitting Bull.

2021年11月2日 · A study published last week confirmed what Ernie LaPointe, a 73-year-old Lakota man who lives in South Dakota, already knew: that he is the great-grandson of the legendary Lakota...

2015年12月12日 · A Vision for the Future – A Message to the World from Ernie LaPointe, Great Grandson of Tatanka Iyotake (Big Bull Sitting Down) who was a Sun dancer, Medicine Man and Chief of the non-treaty Lakota.

2021年10月29日 · For years, Ernie LaPointe, a writer and Vietnam veteran, claimed that he was the great-grandson of Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader famous for resisting the federal...

2021年10月28日 · A South Dakota man has been proven to be the rightful descendant of legendary Lakota warrior leader Sitting Bull, thanks to a new DNA testing method and 14 long years of research. Ernie...

2016年12月12日 · Chief of the non-treaty Lakota. Earnest (Ernie) Wayne LaPointe, a disabled Vietnam veteran, was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota in 1948. He grew up in Rapid City, SD, with his half-sister Marlene Little Spotted Horse. Their late mother Angelique LaPointe, nee Spotted Horse, was a homemaker.