Sitting Bull instigator. Alarm spread to nearby white settlements as the Sioux added a new feature to the dance – shirts that were said to stop bullets. In 1890, James McLaughlin, the U.S. Indian Agent at Fort Yates on Standing Rock Agency, feared that the Lakota leader was about to flee the reservation with the Ghost Dancers, so he ordered the police to arrest him. On December 14, 1890, McLaughlin drafted a letter to Lt. Henry Bullhead (noted as Bull Head in lead), an Indian agency policeman, that included instructions and a plan to capture Sitting Bull. The plan called for the
Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation remains from white grave robbers. Most likely Sitting Bull was born near the Turtle Mountains and Anishinaabe. In 1877 Ogima Sitting Bull told General Terry that he was born and raised among the Red River Half-Breeds, which strongly suggests he was Anishinaabe. Ogima Sitting Bull was not the only Indian leader to speak to the whites on October 17, 1877. Each one told the whites "you have treated us bad for the past 64 years," since 1813 or during the War of 1812. Each one also told the whites that they had been driven out of their original country and