Sitting Bull : The Years In Canada

A popular, biographical, western Canadian history by Grant MacEwan. Following the 1877 defeat of General Custer's forces at Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull joined approximately 5000 Sioux in moving north into (what is now) Saskatchewan. MacEwan situates Sitting Bull's Canadian sojourn in the context of the Great Sioux War, tensions and migrations along the (now) Canadian-American border, and the (then, newly founded) North-West Mounted Police. He reappraises Sitting Bull's legacy as a feared presence on the Canadian prairies, explores Sitting Bull's motivations for aggressively challenging settlers, and evaluates the NWMP's role in responding to the Sioux presence.