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Rh toward Cherry Creek and Cheyenne River. Major McLaughlin says: "The details of the battle show that the Indian police behaved nobly, and exhibited the best of knowledge and bravery. It is hardly possible to praise their conduct too highly."

Thus ended the life of Sitting Bull, the man who was most feared by the whites, and who probably had most influence in keeping the Indians in

a state of hostility. One other man, however, was also giving the government much anxiety. This was Hump, chief of the Minneconjou Sioux, a grandson of Black Buffalo, whom Lewis and Clark met at Fort Pierre. He lived near the mouth of Cherry Creek. The fear of Hump, however, was quite groundless, for upon being requested to do so, he at once came into Fort Sully and enlisted as a scout in the government service. There was a band of Hump's people, under Big Foot, who were dancing on the Cheyenne, and the government determined to put this band under arrest. When the troops approached to arrest Big Foot and his people, the Indians were greatly alarmed, and though they agreed to accompany the soldiers to the fort, they escaped in the night time, and set off to join the dancers in the Bad Lands. Soldiers were at once sent in pursuit, and on the evening of December 28 Big Foot's band was