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Chief Sitting Bull
Smithsonian Institution SI-NAA 42-929.
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| Following the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull, along with some five thousand followers, found refuge in Saskatchewan between 1876 and 1881. During his stay in Canada several members of the North West Mounted Police, who were assigned to accompany Sitting Bull, acquired moccasins and other memorabilia from this famous medicine man and war leader.
The butterfly is believed to have been one of Sitting Bull's medicines. Note the butterfly placed inside his hatband. This symbol appears in all three pairs of the Sitting Bull moccasins.
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