MILITARY HONORS AT FORT YATES, NORTH DAKOTA, DECEMBER 20, 1890
by Diane Glancy
I stood with his father and brother
at the head of his grave.
Bull Head, lieutenant of the Indian police,
went to Sitting Bull's house with a warrant for his arrest.
Hostiles they were called.
Bull Head shot Sitting Bull in the heart.
Sitting Bull shot Bull Head in the thigh as he fell.
How could the wound kill him there?
I ran without sleeping until my feet tore with bruises.
I ran 80 miles.
[Among Sitting Bull's belongings were letters from Mrs. Weldon
of New York warning him to leave the agency because
the government was planning to kill him:
Flee the agency flee they will kill you they will kill
they will hit you with bullets
the impastoned are here
carrying their pallet knives
they will take your moccasins
and clothes for relics
they will scalp
they will saw each hair from your head.]
Diane Glancy
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