Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Route 16 winds slowly through South Dakota's Black Hills, meandering leisurely toward the Pine Ridge reservation and Wounded Knee. The road is the same one that Sitting Bull traveled on his way to Canada in the 1880s, and it goes through some of the most scenic land in the United States...
...treaty, the U.S. could not buy the Black Hills unless "three-fourths of all adult male Indians" agreed to a new treaty. When Red Cloud and Spotted Tail pointed this out, the treaty commissioners explained that this applied only to friendly Indians, not to non-reservation Indians like Sitting Bull, who was considered to be at war with the United States...
...Cloud and other Oglala Sioux eventually signed the treaty, primarily because they had no real choice. The cavalry had already assumed control of the Hills, although one non-signer-Sitting Bull-managed to inflict a horrible defeat on General George A. Custer...
Only 10 per cent of the Indians signed the agreement that gave the Black Hills to the U.S. Sitting Bull took his tribe to Canada and Crazy Horse, an Oglala, drifted about the Black Hills. In 1875, Crazy Horse's emissary. Little Big Man, told the treaty commission that Crazy Horse would never give the white man the Paha Sapa...
...reservation Indians, between Indians co-opted by the government and those who remain outside the government's grasp, erupted again at Wounded Knee. AIM asked for more than adherence to the 1868 Laramie treaty-it asked for the young Oglala to remember that Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull died at the hands of Indian police working for the U.S. government...