The Sioux refused to cooperate with the census count. Some bands refused to be counted, others threatened to bolt to agencies to which they hoped to be transferred, and still others, angry at the land cession, moved as far away from their agencies as possible and called for others to join them. To keep the Indians tractable during the census count, Secretary of the Interior John Noble called in the army. Soldiers camped outside of Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River Reservations in the summer of 1890.99
