“We want no white men here,” Sitting Bull said. “The Black Hills belong to me. If the whites try to take them, I will fight.” To traditionalist Sioux, the Black Hills were sacred. Their red rock was the blood of Sioux forefathers; their heights, the place from which humans had come to earth. The Black Hills could never be sold. Like Red Cloud, the traditionalists demanded that whites respect the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
