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Sitting Bull
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Sitting Bull (1831-1890)
-- On July 19, 1881, after four years of self-exile in Canada,
Sitting Bull
and his followers surrendered to U.S. officials at Fort Buford in what is
now
North Dakota
and were placed on the
nearby Standing Rock
Indian
reservation. Nine years later, during the
Ghost Dance
Movement,
Indian
police were sent to arrest
Sitting Bull,
who was accused of encouraging
Indian
rebellion.
At dawn on December 15, 1890,
Sitting Bull
was pulled from his cabin bed by
Indian
police, and when he resisted, the famous chief was shot and killed by an
Indian
police officer named Red Tomahawk. After his death he was buried in
the post cemetery at Fort Yates,
North Dakota
. In 1953 what many
believed were the remains of
Sitting Bull
were moved from Fort Yates to a memorial overlooking the
Missouri
River near Mobridge,
South Dakota. However, many
North Dakotans
believe the wrong remains
were moved and today both states staunchly claim to have
Sitting
Bull's burial site.
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