SITTING BULLS LAST MEDICINE. 



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FUNERAL OF POLICEMEN KILLED IN SITTING BULL FIGHT. STANDING 



AND FORT YATES IN THE BACKGROUND. 



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Photo, by Scott 



The most tender care was given 

 them by their brethren and by the 

 troops, and these men, used as they 

 were to great courage and to acts 

 of bravery, marvelled at the heroism 

 shown by these simple-minded red 

 men when their lives were fast ebb- 

 ing away. 



The village was searched, and one 

 officer with a squad of men made a 

 tour of the houses and tepees. In 

 one of the former, two Indian women 

 were found, sitting on a bed crying. 

 John Eagle Man, a policeman who 

 had been through the morning's fight, 

 told the officer he thought there were 

 hostiles near. The squaws were 

 ordered to rise, but refused, and were 

 finally led across the room. The 

 bedding was raised and underneath 

 were hidden two Indian lads of 14 

 and 18. They were taken prisoners, 

 later conveyed totheagencyand then 

 released. Had they fallen into the 

 policemen's hands that morning they 

 would have fared rather worse, as 

 one was a nephew of Sitting Bull, 

 who had brought such sadness to 



& Lander, Wyo. 



their brave little band and to the 

 Sioux Nation at large. 



In the early afternoon the return 

 march to the post began. The wound- 

 ed were driven with all speed to 

 the agency hospital, where they ar- 

 rived at midnight. 



The dead policemen were placed 

 on a wagon, with the body of Sitting 

 Bull, and taken away. 



The command camped that night 

 at Oak Creek, where the infantry, un- 

 der Colonel Drum, met them, and the 

 next day the chad and living reached 

 Fort Yates and Standing Rock once 

 more. Poor Shave Head died that 

 night, though everything possible 

 had been done to save him. The 

 dead Sioux, including Sitting Hull, 

 were buried in the agency cemel 



Thus ended tin- life of the 



aged chief of the Uncapapas, and 

 Tah-tank-ah-Yo-tah-kee, as he was 

 called by his people, had made his 

 last medicine. Tin- brave cavalry- 

 men killed in the battle oi the Little 

 Big Horn were avenged by the \ 

 Sioux w h > had slain them. 



