Sitting Bull : the years in Canada

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Sitting Bull : the years in Canada / Grant MacEwan.

MacEwan, Grant, 1902- (author.).

Summary:

"His four year asylum on the Canadian prairie struck terror in the settlers and created international tensions. Both Canadians and Americans feared that he would use Canada as a base from which to launch raids over the border. The Americans wanted him back where they could control him, or at least wanted the Canadian government to accept responsibility for him. He wanted to remain in the 'Great White Mother's Country'. The Canadian government repeatedly refused to grant him a reservations." -- jacket flap

Record details

ISBN: 9780888300737 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0888300735
Physical Description: 221 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Publisher: Edmonton, AB : Hurtig Publishers, [1973]
Copyright: ©1973

Content descriptions

General Note:: Maps on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-218) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Bloody Hands -- The Prairie Neighbourhood -- Massacre in Minnesota -- The Sioux Years in Manitoba -- The Indian wars -- Violence North of the Line -- Macdonald's Boundary Police -- Custer's Last Stand -- After Little Big Horn -- Walsh Meets Bull -- Laws Must Be Enforced -- The Wood Mountain Scene -- International Complexities -- And then the Nez Percé -- White Bird's Story -- Bull Faces the Commission -- New Risks and New Dangers -- More Trouble on the Way -- Short Tempers -- Famine in Buffalo Country -- You Can't Continue This Way -- Dissension -- An Old Hat and an Old Horse -- Almost Persuaded -- Qu'Appelle
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:: Donation (copy 1) ; William C. Wonders ; 2008/03.