| SITTING BULL |
Sitting Bull, along with 500 Sioux, arrived in Canada after the Sioux Indians
he and Crazy Horse were leading, killed General George Custer and his 265
men at the Battle of Little Big Horn. He had fled over the Canadian border
where they would be safe from the US army. Over the next five years the
NWMP managed to keep the Sioux warriors under control. In 1879 the government
decided that the Sioux were 'American Indians', although they had historically
ranged back and forth across the 49th parallel and worked toward having
them ousted from Canada. The Canadian government refused to sign any treaties
with the Sioux and would give them no land or food. Finally, in 1881, Sitting
Bull led his starving people south. Nine years later Sitting Bull and eight
of his followers were killed resisting arrest.
- Source - Alberta History Along the Highway by Ted Stone
- Source - Heritage Hunter's Guide to Alberta Museums by Roberta Hursey
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