“We were told that white men would not kill women and children, but now we have lost all faith in white men,” they explained. “We took pity on them in the past, but we shall never do so again. We plan to strike the whites all along the Platte, and after that the settlements to the west. Are you with us?” they asked Sitting Bull. He was. From this time on, Sitting Bull would stand firm against eastern incursions into Indian lands.
