During the wars between the US Government and the Native Americans in the 1860s and 70s, Sitting Bull was one of the two great leaders of the Sioux; who was the other - victorious at the Battle of the Rose Bud and murdered whist in captivity in September 1877?
The Great Sioux Massacre not coincide with the hilly wooded Mexican landscapes of Salkow's "Sitting Bull". The screenplay by Salkow and Marvin Gluck was credited as "Fred C. Dobbs", the name of Humphrey Bogart's character in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and then the name of a nightclub on Sunset Strip. Italian American and faux Native American actor Iron Eyes Cody, who also played Crazy Horse in Salkow's "Sitting Bull", had appeared in the 1936 "Custer's Last Stand". Iron Eyes also acted as technical adviser on the film. Louise Serpa, who played Mrs Turner, was a renowned rodeo photographer. The Great Sioux Massacre
History of the Native Americans in Baltimore Cherokee migrated to Baltimore during the mid-1900s along with other migrants from the South, such as African-Americans and white Appalachians. As of the 2000 United States Census, there were 6,976 Native Americans in the Baltimore metropolitan area, making up 0.3% of the area's population. In 2013, 370 Cherokee people and 87 Navajo people lived in Baltimore city, 0.1% and 0.0% of the population respectively. No residents of Baltimore were Chippewa or Sioux. As of September 2014, speakers of Native American languages were the twenty-seventh largest group of language speakers in Baltimore. The Baltimore area had been inhabited by Native Americans