In 1876, Chief Sitting Bull sent the US government a defiant message by standing up to the brutal military machine threatening his people.
The Hunkpapa Lakota chief led the forces that crushed General George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana – also known as Custer’s Last Stand.
And now, the Native Americans of the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota are channelling that fighting spirit as they take a new stand against authorities.
This time, it is to keep the coronavirus out of their community as President Donald Trump ’s push to reopen America, against all expert advice, threatens a calamity.