– **Smithsonian TORCH blog — “New Study Adds to Decade-Old Repatriation of Sitting Bull’s Belongings”** (https://torch.si.edu/2021/11/new-study-adds-to-decade-old-repatriation-of-sitting-bulls-belongings/): Items repatriated (hair and leggings), Deeble provenance, Billeck’s research role, National Museum of the American Indian Act, Smithsonian’s independent lineal-descendant determination, LaPointe’s four categories of evidence, ceremony after repatriation.
– **Smithsonian Magazine — “Sitting Bull’s Legacy”** (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sitting-bulls-legacy-175332903/): Billeck’s five-year research, contact in 2002, 30-day competing-claims window, LaPointe’s mother’s oral history, Sitting Bull’s birth location dispute, Sun Dancer identity, spiritual significance of the hair.
– **Business Insider — LaPointe interview** (https://businessinsider.nl/sitting-bulls-great-grandson-says-he-always-knew-his-ancestry-but-some-historians-would-say-you-cannot-trust-the-natives-oral-history/): LaPointe’s account of being “shocked” by 2003 Smithsonian contact, DNA as “scientific connection,” objection to “identified” framing, state permit goals, LaPointe’s statement about oral history reliability.
– **KOTATV — “Legendary Lakota leader’s grandson shares journey to prove family tree”** (https://www.kotatv.com/2021/11/03/legendary-lakota-leaders-grandson-shares-journey-prove-family-tree/): 2003 Smithsonian contact, DNA result meaning to LaPointe, reburial goals, media attention after LA Times story.
– **CBS News — “Man confirmed to be great-grandson of Sitting Bull using DNA from centuries-old lock of hair”** (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sitting-bull-great-grandson-dna-match): LaPointe quote “over the years, many people have tried to question the relationship,” Willerslev admired Sitting Bull since boyhood, reburial goal.
– **Genetic Literacy Project — “DNA confirms legendary Lakota leader Sitting Bull has a living descendant”** (https://geneticliteracyproject.org/?p=2420653): Methods description, autosomal DNA rationale, why Y-chromosome and mitochondrial were not used, 14-year development timeline.
– **ICT News / AP — 2007 repatriation/burial story** (https://ictnews.org/?p=117578): Sisters named (Marlene Little Spotted Horse Andersen, Ethel Little Spotted Horse Bates, Lydia Little Spotted Horse Red Paint), LaPointe as family spokesman, Standing Rock tourism director response, burial deterioration, Sitting Bull Monument Foundation.