Editing Fort Yates, North Dakota (section)

==History==
A primarily Native American settlement developed here after a US Army post at this site was established in 1863 as the Standing Rock [[Cantonment]], intended for the US Army garrison to oversee the [[Hunkpapa]] and Blackfeet bands, and the Inhunktonwan and Cuthead of the Upper Yanktonai, of the [[Lakota people|Lakota]] Oyate. In 1878 the [[United States Army|US Army]] renamed the fort to honor Captain [[George Yates]], who was killed by the [[Sioux|Lakota Oyate]] at the [[Battle of Little Big Horn]] in 1876.<ref>{{Cite book|title=After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country|last=Hedren|first=Paul L.|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-8061-4216-6|location=Norman, OK|pages=67}}</ref> The town that developed was also known as Fort Yates. The Army post and fort were decommissioned in 1903.

Fort Yates also served as the headquarters of the US Standing Rock Indian Agency, which in the late 19th century was headed by US Indian Service Agent [[James McLaughlin (Indian agent)|James McLaughlin]]. Worried about the Hunkpapa Lakota chief [[Sitting Bull]] possibly taking part in the [[Ghost Dance]] movement, he ordered the arrest of the chief on December 14, 1890. During the bungled event the chief was shot and killed at dawn in his log cabin by agency non-Hunkpapa Dakota police.

[[Sitting Bull]] was buried at Fort Yates. In 1953, his family authorized his remains to be exhumed and transferred to a gravesite overlooking the Missouri River near his birthplace at [[Mobridge, South Dakota]]. A monument dedicated to Sitting Bull was installed at his burial site at Fort Yates. Another monument, with his bust on a pedestal, overlooks the Missouri River at the Mobridge burial site.

This city has become the tribal headquarters of the federally recognized [[Standing Rock Sioux Tribe]], whose reservation encompasses it. They founded [[Sitting Bull College]] in Fort Yates, a [[tribal college]] now named for their noted 19th-century leader. Known also as "Long Soldier", it is the most populous electoral district of the reservation.

[[File:Northern Plains Overland Trails 1866-1877 map on display at the Fort Totten Historic Site.jpg|thumb|Northern Plains Overland Trails 1866–1877 map on display at the Fort Totten Historic Site]]