As a result, Sitting .
Bull was arrested in December 1890, because there was no one else to blame. There were no vivid answers, only military action, since they opposed to view the life of the Indian people (Encyclopedia Encart, p.1). It must have been a very difficult transition from being taken from their land, to being placed in a reservation, to being taken into custody. .
While they were taking Sitting Bull into custody, there was a conflict between the Indians and the police, where Sitting Bull was killed instantly. The next person on the list was Big Foot, who had fled with his tribe to Pine Ridge, although the 7th cavalry army reached them and sent them to Wounded Knee (Brown, 2). What happened next would be the most unimaginable massacre known to most Indians in modern times.
On December 29, 1890, Big Foot was dying of pneumonia, but heard shots firing .
and people yelling. He knew it was to late, and died trying to get up from his deathbed. Shots began to fire at the Sioux campground when a conflict between an Indian and an American took place. As a result, shots were being fired at Indian crowds and even inside their tipis (Brown, 3). .
Poor innocent children, and women died were trying to escape the violence that was occurring. It was to late for anyone to come and help, or to end such violent turmoil. In the end there was no Sioux Indian to mourn the loss of his wife, husband or child. The Seventh Cavalry had killed almost all of them (Nabokov, Peter, 365). .
It was not for certain how it ended so tragicically, but Peter Nabokov mentioned about the event that took place before the firing occurred. Nabokov, author of The Native Americans, stated that "The Seventh Cavalry troops, having rounded up a band of Hunkpapa Sioux suspected of potential trouble (fully two-thirds of them were women and children), herded the Indians for the night into a tight group surrounded by five hundred soldiers, their normal armament reinforced with four Hotchkiss guns.