Sitting Bull (Famous Figures of the American Frontier) by Hal Marcovitz

Sitting Bull (Famous Figures of the American Frontier) by Hal Marcovitz

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Allison recommended to Congress that the government send in the military and take the lands from the Sioux. So they recommended to Congress that the government go ahead with plans to seize the lands from the Native Americans by force. The next move came when Edward P. Smith, commissioner of Indian Affairs, ordered the Sioux to settle on the Great Reservation by January 31, 1876. ” Again, the Sioux refused. On March 17, 1876, the Long Knives attacked. A T HE L ITTLE B IGHORN column of soldiers led by Colonel Joseph J.

The Crows and Hunkpapas D EFENDING S IOUX L ANDS skirmished often, attacking each other’s hunting parties. While the tribes were fighting, they hardly noticed new white activity in their lands. In the fall of 1871, surveyors escorted by 600 soldiers appeared in the Yellowstone Valley in Montana to survey for a railroad. They were planning a route for the Northern Pacific Railroad, which would link St. Paul, Minnesota, with Seattle, Washington. Sitting Bull sent Black Moon, the Hunkpapa spiritual leader, to tell the surveyors they were intruding on Sioux land.

Putnam’s Sons, 1996. Shields, Charles J. Buffalo Bill Cody. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2002. Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. , 1993. Whittaker, Frederick. A Complete Life of General George A. Custer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. 62 I NDEX Battle of the Little Bighorn, 40-47, 49 Battle of the Rosebud, 42 Bear’s Rib, 22, 23 Black Hills (“Paha Sapa”), 13, 33, 35, 36, 38, 39, 50 Black Moon, 28, 33 Bozeman Trail, 29 Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, 53-54 Civil War, 23, 37 Conquering Bear, 21 Crazy Horse, 41, 42, 44 Crook, George, 42, 50 Crow Indians, 8, 9 Custer, George A.

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