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Sitting Bull, Sioux Chief and Medicine Man

Sitting Bull was born in 1834 somewhere in the Dakotas. He regarded himself as a Canadian rather than American.  When Sitting Bull was a young man, he was shot in the leg and permanently injured. Thus, he became a Medicine Man and Chief.

The Sioux people had a reputation for warfare-especially with the Cree and Blackfoot. Sitting Bull's tribe was considered a threat to Canada because of the fear of intertribal war with other Aboriginal groups and the threat of attacks on local settlers and fur traders. Despite requests for a Canadian reserve, the Sitting Bull Sioux were considered Americans and the Canadian government claimed to have no responsibility over them. In 1881 he was forced to move his people back to the United States, where he died in 1890.

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