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# "Sitting Bull Esq." — Judge Magazine Satire This page mocks **Sitting Bull**, the Lakota leader, following his capture and exhibition in America (likely his 1885 tour). The satire presents him as a "civilized" guest being feted across the US—compared ironically to Napoleon's triumphal returns—while implying his reformation is temporary theater. The cartoons depict Sitting Bull's transformation: dressed in fine clothes, enjoying refined foods (quail, champagne) instead of "army rations," and being lionized in museums like Eden Musée. However, the text sarcastically suggests this is performative. Once his money runs out and "Agency grub" becomes monotonous, the writer predicts he'll inevitably return to frontier violence. The satire hinges on the period's racial contempt: Native Americans are inherently savage and cannot genuinely assimilate, regardless of surface civility. General Sheridan's quote—"The best Injun is a dead one"—reflects the genocidal ideology underlying the "joke." The secondary items are editorial filler typical of Judge's format.

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