What Did Sitting Bull Mean When He Stated in His

question 46

Multiple Choice

What did Sitting Bull mean when he stated in his 1877 speech at the Powder River Council that "…we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they [whites] threaten to take that from us also…"?

• A) Railroad companies and entrepreneurs virtually eliminated the buffalo from the Great Plains.
• B) The federal government violated treaties declaring Indian lands off limits to white settlement.
• C) The defacement of the earth made by farmers and miners was sacrilegious.
• D) The encroaching white culture was more civilized than the Sioux culture.