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Hunger led more and more Sioux to surrender, and in May
1877, Sitting Bull led his remaining followers across the
border into Canada. But the Canadian government could
not acknowledge responsibility for feeding a people whose
reservation was south of the border and, after four years
during which his following dwindled steadily, famine
forced Sitting Bull to surrender. After 1883 he lived at the
Standing Rock Agency, where he vainly opposed the sale
of tribal lands. In 1885, partly to get rid of him, the Indian
agent allowed him to join Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, in
which he gained international fame.
The year 1889 saw the spread of the Ghost Dance reli-
gious movement, which prophesied the advent of an
Indian messiah who would sweep away the whites and
restore the Indians’ former traditions. The Ghost Dance
movement augmented the unrest already stirring among
the Sioux by hunger and disease. Out of fear that Sitting
Bull would use his influence to promote the movement,
Indian police and soldiers were sent to arrest the chief.
Seized on Grand River, December 15, 1890, Sitting Bull
was killed while his warriors were trying to rescue him.
He was buried at Fort Yates, but his remains were moved
in 1953 to Mobridge, South Dakota, where a granite shaft
marks his resting place.

Theodore Roosevelt

(b. Oct. 27, 1858, New York, N.Y., U.S.—d. Jan. 6, 1919,
Oyster Bay, N.Y.)

T

heodore Roosevelt, also known as Teddy or TR, was

the 26th president of the United States, from 1901 to

1909. He was also a writer, naturalist, and soldier. He won
      the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906 for mediating an end to
      the Russo-Japanese War.