Sitting Bull, Custer Battlefield Poster

This print by artist Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) Sitting Bull, Custer Battlefield was distributed by the National Park Service's U.S. Department of Interior in 1979 as a poster for the National Monument in Montana. It memorializes Chief Sitting Bull of the Hunkpapa Lakota people, a political and spiritual leader who had a vision of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This was seen as a foreshadowing of victory by his people and was played out in the conflict with a heavy loss of 7th cavalry soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Custer.