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Sitting Bull's Crossing to Wood Mountain

When: May 1877
Where: Wood Mountain
Part of: Sitting Bull leads Lakota into Canada after the Great Sioux War

Sitting Bull refused to surrender and in May 1877 led his band north across the border into Canada, to Wood Mountain in the North-West Territories.

After the Interior Department certified off-reservation bands as hostile and Grant ordered all Sioux bands onto the Great Sioux Reservation, Sitting Bull refused to surrender. In May 1877 he led his band north to Wood Mountain in the North-West Territories, now Saskatchewan. The passages give no specific day for the crossing, so the legacy May 5 date is treated as unverified.

Sources

Sitting Bull Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28
Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28

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