The Last Sovereigns by Robert M. Utley

Author:Robert M. Utley [Utley, Robert M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS036040 History / United States / 19th Century, HIS028000 History / Native American, HIS006020 History / Canada / Post-confederation (1867-)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Repeatedly Irvine told Sitting Bull that Walsh would not return to Wood Mountain. Sitting Bull then said that Walsh had told him that the government was building houses for him in the north (Fort Qu’Appelle) and that if Walsh had not returned to Wood Mountain by the time the first snow fell, Sitting Bull was to go to Qu’Appelle to see him.8

An official of the ministry of the interior, Controller Frederick White, accompanied Irvine to Wood Mountain. He discovered that Walsh had sent tobacco to a trader to pass on to Sitting Bull as a pledge of good faith in carrying out his promises. If Walsh communicated with Wood Mountain as much as he had during his previous leave of absence, he kept in touch with Sitting Bull with more than a pouch of tobacco. White also wrote to Sir John about the “dishonest representations made to Sitting Bull by Superintendent Walsh, all calculated to lead to the belief that Superintendent Walsh, and he alone, was the man with whom Sitting Bull generally dealt.”

Plainly, despite his removal from command at Wood Mountain Post, Major Walsh continued to influence Sitting Bull. And plainly Sitting Bull welcomed that influence. It gave him an excuse for putting off a decision on what to do.

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