Chief Sitting Bull

The Royal Ontario Museum has a really interesting collection of Native American artifacts, including some amazing beading. But the items I was most astounded by were the war regalia of Chief Sitting Bull. I have included pictures of the headdress, shoes and tunic. How did these things end up in Ontario? Evidently he lead his tribe to Canada after the defeat of Custer, and asked for them to be accepted into Canada. Although Canada agreed, eventually almost all of them were sent back to the USA and once back there, Sitting Bull was killed and most of them died of hunger.

I also visited the house where LM Montgomery lived after her husband died and she moved to Toronto. There is a plaque in the park near the house. As the house is not a museum, Canada closed most of the street instead.

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