Only thirteen days before, Sitting Bull had been killed with his son Crow Foot in a gun battle with a group of Indian police that had been sent by the American government to arrest him.
Samo trinaest dana prije toga, samog Bika Koji Sjedi i njegovog sina Vranino Stopalo u borbi protiv Indijanske policije koju je radi njihovog uhićenja poslala vlada SAD-a.