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RETREAT TO THE BAD LANDS 



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element had withdrawn to the Bad Lands, where they were making no 

 hostile demonstrations, but were apparently badly frightened and 

 awaiting developments to know whether to come in and surrender or 

 to continue to retreat. The dance had generally been discontinued on 

 the reservations, excepting at Sitting Bull's camp on Grand river and 



Fig. 



- Kicking Bear. 



Big Foot's camp-on Cheyenne river. The presence of troops had 

 stopped the dances near the agencies, and the .Secretary of the interior, 

 in order to allay the dissatisfaction, had ordered that the full rations 

 due under the treaty should be issued at all the Sioux agencies, which 

 at the same time were placed under the control of the military. (G. 



