The police troop and the majority of the other Sioux there, asked that Sitting Bull be not buried in this cemetery. His medicine had been bad. Therefore this same morning he was buried, wrapped in canvas in a neat coffin, in the military cemetery near by. His age was fifty-six.
The white head-board says simply:
SITTING BULL Died December 15, 1890
That was his end, on this earth; for, as far as known, he never came back from spirit land. The pretended Messiah"s promises proved false.
The white men remained stronger than the ghosts. The Indians seemed to have no "medicine" to equal the terrible shoot-with-out-loading guns of the blue-coat soldiers.
THE END