impossible for Sitting Bull and his followers. By 1880, almost a thousand Sioux had surrendered to General Miles, going against Sitting Bull and his council. James Walsh, a Mounted Police officer and friend to the Sioux brought their case before Prime Minister Macdonald in Ottawa, but was rejected and ordered to take a new position in the police. The Sioux remained in limbo and hungry for the rest of 1880 while officials from Canada and the United States could not come to a common solution on what to do about the Sioux situation.Finally on July 19, 1881 Sitting Bull entered Fort Buford in the Dakota Territory and surrendered himself and the remaining two hundred Sioux to the United States army. The Sioux remained quiet on the reservation until the large Ghost Dance Movement of the late 1880?s and early 1890?s.This Ghost Dance movement was a religion practiced by the Sioux that was supposed to bring about change and hope that were not dependent upon the promises of the white man. It was very popular at the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations that had very harsh winters which caused many of the Sioux to starve. In March of 1890, the messiah came to the Sioux, his name was Wovoka and he said that the ghosts would return in the spring of 1891 and bring herds of buffalo and game the white man had destroyed. He taught them the religion and many Sioux became passionate about what the messiah said. They started the ghost dances on the reservations much to the surprise of the government agents and they quickly spread faster than the agents could handle. The whites soon began to cut the rations of food on the reservations, so Sioux were torn between the whites who had no intention of helping them or joining the craze. It was on a Sioux reservation that the first ghost shirts were worn. These were thought to protect the wearer from the white man?s bullets. By August of 1890 the ghost dancers on the Pine Ridge reservation were no longer...
