Who ordered Sitting Bull's arrest?
George Custer
Nelson Miles
James McLaughlin
William Tecumseh Sherman
Answer
James McLaughlin, a US Indian agent, ordered Sitting Bull's arrest for refusing to comply with the government's demand to relocate to a reservation in 1876. McLaughlin saw Sitting Bull as a threat to the government's efforts to control the Lakota people and their lands in the northern plains.
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