Sitting Bull -- 1831-1890, Lakota, Lakota -- Chiefs -- Biography, Lakota -- Biography, Indigenous Chiefs -- Biography, Indigenous Chiefs, Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895 

"Sitting Bull — the most feared name in all buffalo country — made an indelible impression on both American and Canadian history.

In 1877, after the overwhelming defeat of Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull and his Sioux crossed the International Boundary with the United States forces in pursuit.

His four year asylum on the Canadian prairie struck terror in the settlers and created international tensions. Both Canadians and Americans feared that he would use Canada as a base from which to launch raids over the border. The Americans wanted him back where they could control him, or at least wanted the Canadian government to accept all responsibility for him. He wanted to remain in the "Great White Mother's country". The Canadian government repeatedly refused to grant him a reservation.

Sitting Bull's dream to unite all the Indians and drive the white man from the plains was not realized. That he did not succeed was due to the efforts of the newly formed North West Mounted Police — literally a handful of men against thousands of Indians — and, perhaps, especially due to the understanding and tact of one man, James Morrow Walsh, one of the originals of the new force and the man directly responsible for establishing its character.

The author reassess the accepted belief that Sitting Bull was vicious and cruel. Could any man, facing the loss of his lands and traditional way of life, have done less?"--Book jacket. 

221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. 

Includes bibliographical references and index.