some time after the ghost dance was stopped, porcupine moved to the oglala sioux pine ridge indian reservation. the sioux and cheyennes had always been on friendly terms and had been allies in battle before the cheyenne surrender. porcupine himself was half sioux. however, after wounded knee porcupine and sixty others were temporarily moved to the northern cheyenne reservation; many cheyenne were in the army as scouts and it was felt they would not be safe at pine ridge. they became caught in a bureaucratic trap there. porcupine believed that they should have been paid their share of the money from the enforced sale of reservation land in south dakota to the government in 1889. they did not get it because they were no longer on the roll at pine ridge, even though their move was only supposed to be temporary ("a visit" as cheyenne tribal historian john stands in timber puts it). some of them were paid after a wait of a year.