Was Sitting Bull a Catholic?

The answer is really unclear.  He had a lot of Catholic influences, and he seemed to respect Catholic priests and may have been baptized, but  the problem was he never knew what to do with his two wives.

Concerning Buffalo Bill Cody, Mark Amstrong at Catholic Lane explains:

After four months on the road, selling autographs and acting for Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull wanted to go back to Fort Yates and the Standing Rock Agency. During those four months in 1884, whether he talked Buffalo Bill Cody into being Catholic is a matter of conjecture. Historical records from Iowa, where Cody was born, indicate that ‘Buffalo Bill’ was baptized in the Dixie Union Chapel in Peel County, Iows in 1847. It was not until the day before he died that Cody became a Catholic.


According to three sources, Cody died at the age of 70 in Denver, Colorado surrounded by friends and family at his sister’s house in Denver. The day before Cody died on January 9, 1917, he was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church by Father Christopher Walsh of the Denver Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The following day January 10, 1917 William Cody reportedly died of kidney failure.

Via Mark Shea.