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
Sitting Bull Family Foundation Sitting Bull Family Foundation The Sitting Bull Family Foundation (SBFF) was founded by Ernie Lapointe. According to the organization's website, its mission is to offer the accurate oral history of Sitting Bull through storytelling, by sharing his exemplary cultural and spiritual way of life, and to awaken cultural awareness in the traditional Lakota way of life. According to SBFF, the organization provides educational projects for the people of Native American descent and those wanting to learn how to live in peace and harmony with Mother Earth. The emphasis of SBFF, according to its website, is on educational efforts to teach