From: joe@blow.com   
      
   The feds here deliberately starved Sitting Bull and his followers in order   
   to force them to surrender to the US at Ft. Buford, Dakota Territory in June   
   1881.   
      
   This was the tactic they used against all our Plains tribes in order to   
   force them to accept deliberate treaty violations by the government, like   
   not supplying sufficient resources such as draft animals and seed to make   
   the transition from hunting to farming. They had to balance that federal   
   budget, you know, and the Indians had no way of raising much political   
   ruckus other than rebelling. Some of this was at the root of the Riel   
   provisional government of 1885 and the subsequent war.   
      
   Pretty evil and pathetic, but 99% of the population of Canada knows nothing   
   about it. We have a lot of sleeping dogs in our historical community :(   
   --   
   Best regards,   
   Todd Sauve   
      
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