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TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2003

"Sitting Bull stirred up a lot of trouble for the settlers when he was alive. And even in death, he was causing problems. Fifty years ago, a battle between North and South Dakota over his bones stopped just short of civil war.

There were many news accounts. It all started when Gov. Sigurd Anderson of South Dakota called on Gov. Norman Brunsdale of North Dakota to give up the bones of the medicine man. The North Dakotans were not willing to have the bones removed from the place where he had been buried at Ft. Yates, N.D., 67 years earlier."

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THAT REMINDS ME: Uproar over Sitting Bull's bones continues smoldering to this day (The Grand Forks Herald 4/22)