Sitting Bull in Canada

"After the defeat of Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull and his band fled north across the Medicine Line to escape the U.S. army. There, one man - Major James Walsh of the North-West Mounted Police - rode into Sitting Bull's frenzied camp to inform him that he would be protected in Canada as long as he obeyed its laws. From Walsh's bold move developed an improbable bond of respect and friendship between the legendary chief and his Mountie advocate that would last their lifetimes.

Tony Hollihan narrates the tale of Sitting Bull's determined attempts to cling to the traditional Sioux way of life in the face of settlers and gold seekers who wanted the West for their own:
- soft-spoken and physically unassuming, a boy named Slow grows to become the battle-scarred Sitting Bull, the most famous and respected leader on the Great Plains
- Sitting Bull leads his people in the fight to preserve the sacred Black Hills, Paha Sapa
- the great chief's futile appeals to the Canadian government for a reservation fall on deaf ears
- the Terry Commission comes north to negotiate the return of Sitting Bull and his band to the United States
- in his later years, Sitting Bull continues to work for his people, performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, earning money to help support them and pleading their case with the U.S. government and its citizens." -- Provided by publisher