Sitting Bull the federal government's pacification campaign. During the period 1868–1876, Sitting Bull developed into the most important of Native American political leaders. After the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) and the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation, many traditional Sioux warriors, such as Red Cloud of the Oglala and Spotted Tail of the Brulé, moved to reside permanently on the reservations. They were largely dependent for subsistence on the US Indian agencies. Many other chiefs, including members of Sitting Bull's Hunkpapa band such as Gall, at times lived temporarily at the agencies. They needed the supplies at a time when white
Indian agency police Cherokee, had well-developed systems of tribal laws and tribal courts; the agency police also enforced these laws, and testified and maintained order in the tribal courts. Since the agency police were federal officers, crimes against them had to be tried in a United States district court. Several Indian agency police were responsible for the death of the Lakota leader Sitting Bull. Indian agency police Indian agency police were policemen hired by United States Indian agents during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and assigned to a Native American tribe. It was the duty of Indian agency police to enforce