Fiction and Film
- The silent film With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre (1927) was loosely based on these events; in fact, Sitting Bull had nothing to do with the attacks.
- MacKinlay Kantor based his novel Spirit Lake (1961) on the historic events.
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