15 December 2018

Eradicated.


Sitting Bull was killed on this day in 1890.

This conflict, which cost so many lives, is much to be regretted, yet the good resulting therefrom can scarcely be overestimated, as it has effectually eradicated all seeds of disaffection sown by the Messiah Craze among the Indians of this Agency, and has also demonstrated to the people of the country the fidelity and loyalty of the Indian police in maintaining law and order on the reservation . Everything is now quiet at this Agency, and good feeling prevails among the Indians, newspaper reports to the contrary notwithstanding.

James McLaughlin, His Account of the Death of Sitting Bull and of the Circumstances Attending It, Philadelphia, 1891

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