num_pages: 224
description: In 1877, after the defeat of Custer at Little Bighorn, the U.S. Government removed the Northern Cheyenne from their traditional homelands to a reservation in Indian Territory (Oklahoma).After suffering a year of disease and lack of food, and still not being allowed to return north, over 350 Cheyenne, under the leadership of Chiefs Dull Knife and Little Wolf, broke out from the reservation.As they traveled north through Kansas and Nebraska, they frustrated the army and terrorized civilians.The army captured them in northwest Nebraska, where they were held until January, when they broke out again. This time, however, the power of the government prevailed.Vernon Maddux, tells all sides of this timeless epic of man's thirst for freedom -- that of the desperate Cheyenne, of the army forced to chase them, and the civilians caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
language: English
title: In Dull Knife's Wake: The True Story of the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878
titlecomplete: In Dull Knife's Wake: The True Story of the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Horse Creek Pub