feed them, or help them against the United States.

There were no buffalo near. When the Sioux raided into the United
States, the soldiers and the Crow scouts were waiting. Their old
hunting grounds were closed tight.

Rain-in-the-face and other chiefs surrendered, to go to the
reservation. Chief Gall defied Sitting Bull, and took two thirds of
the remaining Indians and surrendered, also.

Sitting Bull now had only forty-five men and one hundred and forty
women and children. They all were starving. A white scout visited
them, with promise of pardon by the United States. So in July, of
1881, after he had stayed away four years, he surrendered, at Fort
Buford at the mouth of the Yellowstone River.

He came in sullen and sour and unconquered, but not as a conqueror.
They all were dirty and shabby and hungry. With Sitting Bull there
rode on ponies his old father, Four Horns, and his elder children. In
a wagon piled high with camp goods rode his two wives, one of whom was
named Pretty Plume, and his small children.

A long train of other wagons and carts followed. There was no glory in
this return.

At the Standing Rock Sioux agency he found that Chief Gall was the real
ruler. The people there now thought little of Sitting Bull. His
medicine had proved weak. He tried to make it strong, and he was
laughed at.

Soon the Government deemed best to remove him and his main band, and
shut them up for a while. Sitting Bull was kept a prisoner of war for
two years. After that he took a trip through the East, but he was
hissed. He rode in the Buffalo Bill Wild West show for a short time.
But the white people never forgot the Custer battle, and looked upon
Sitting Bull as a thoroughly bad Indian.

He assumed to settle down, at peace, upon the Standing Rock
reservation, in a cabin not far from the place where he had been born.
But as he had said, he was not "an agency Indian," and did not want to
be an agency Indian.

There is another chapter to be written about Sitting Bull.

CHAPTER XXV

CHIEF JOSEPH GOES TO WAR (1877)

AND OUT-GENERALS THE UNITED STATES ARMY

After Colonel Nelson A. Miles of the Fifth Infantry had driven Sitting
Bull and Chief Gall of the Sioux into Canada and his troops were trying
to stop their raids back, at present Fort Keogh near Miles City on the
Yellowstone River in southeastern Montana he received word of another
Indian war.

The friendly Pierced Noses of Oregon had bro