Sitting Bull in Canada, 1877-81 (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Pakes, Fraser J.  (1938-?)

Publisher: The English Westerners’ Society (London)

Pub Date: 1978

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears.  Slight creasing along front mid-spine edge.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  The Brand Book, Vol. 20, Nos. 1 & 2, October 1977-January 1978.  In 1877, Sitting Bull moved north from Montana in Saskatchewan, near Fort Walsh.  There were numerous attempts to force Sitting Bull and his almost two thousand followers back to the United States by the Canadian, United States and British governments, the U.S. Army, the North West Mounted Police (the Mounties), churches, and newspapers.  During their four years in Canada, the Sioux never managed to gain allies among Canadian Indians (Assiniboine, Cree, Blood, Peigan, Blackfoot, Sarcee, Saulteaux), all of whom looked on the Sioux as competition for the ever-diminishing herds of buffalo.  The Canadian government offered “cold comfort” to the refugees (pun intended), and the U.S. Government pressured the British government to force the Canadian government to force the Sioux to return to the United States.  Why did Sitting Bull and the Sioux return? The decline of the buffalo, and the Sioux’s  loss of confidence in Sitting Bull’s leadership, were the deciding factors.