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One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had resisted the United States intrusions into Lakota prairie land for years, refused to sign treaties, and called for a gathering of tribes at Little Big Horn. He epitomized resistance. Sitting Bulls role at Little Big Horn has been the subject of hundreds of historical works, but while Sitting Bull was in fact present, he did not engage in the battle. The conflict with Custer was a benchmark to the subsequent events. There are other battles than those of war, and the conflict between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin was one of those battles.
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The story is grounded on the Northern Plains, but is about two men of distinct backgrounds and different intentions toward the same land. The Sioux War is over and the Indian Bureau is pursuing its self described humanitarian policy of reculturation of the Native American through reservation life. Native culture and religion must change. The Indian must assimilate. Sitting Bull understands conquest but he is not about to surrender all of the Lakota's natural rights as a people of the prairie.
