Add to ORKGUpon first glance, a specific act of violence seemed to fix the particular location of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. On December 12, 1880, the prominent Northern Cheyenne chief, Little Wolf, staggered into a white-owned trading store near Fort Keogh, Montana Territory, and, in a drunken stupor, shot and killed a fellow Cheyenne named Starving Elk. Enraged at Starving Elk for gambling with his daughter, Little Wolf committed the most atrocious act a Cheyenne could commit, the killing of another Cheyenne. Blood spilled within the tribe polluted the Mahuts, the four sacred arrows the Creator gave to the Cheyenne people to mark them as distinct from other mortals and forever bind them to him.1 As one of the four Old Man Chiefs of the tribe...
In the summer of 1876, the United States government launched the Great Sioux War, a sharp instrument...
During the 1840s and 1850s, more than 300,000 traders and overland emigrants followed the Platte and...
In the larger context of Plains Indian history, the Northern Cheyenne seem to drop from public consc...
Upon first glance, a specific act of violence seemed to fix the particular location of the Northern ...
Today, the Northern Cheyenne Reservation stretches west from the Tongue River over more than 400,000...
Today, the Northern Cheyenne Reservation stretches west from the Tongue River over more than 400,000...
Cheyenne Autumn is an unflinching historical portrait of a people confronting physical extermination...
The Dull Knife outbreak of 1878 was one of the last Indian raids in the United States. It was part o...
The Dull Knife outbreak of 1878 was one of the last Indian raids in the United States. It was part o...
Cheyenne Autumn is an unflinching historical portrait of a people confronting physical extermination...
Morgan, M.J.During the 1860s, Indian tribes raided frontier settlements across the plains, most nota...
During the 1840s and 1850s, more than 300,000 traders and overland emigrants followed the Platte and...
Morgan, M.J.During the 1860s, Indian tribes raided frontier settlements across the plains, most nota...
Northwest Nebraska, from the 1870s to the early twentieth century, had a complex economic and social...
Northwest Nebraska, from the 1870s to the early twentieth century, had a complex economic and social...
In the summer of 1876, the United States government launched the Great Sioux War, a sharp instrument...
During the 1840s and 1850s, more than 300,000 traders and overland emigrants followed the Platte and...
In the larger context of Plains Indian history, the Northern Cheyenne seem to drop from public consc...
Upon first glance, a specific act of violence seemed to fix the particular location of the Northern ...
Today, the Northern Cheyenne Reservation stretches west from the Tongue River over more than 400,000...
Today, the Northern Cheyenne Reservation stretches west from the Tongue River over more than 400,000...
Cheyenne Autumn is an unflinching historical portrait of a people confronting physical extermination...
The Dull Knife outbreak of 1878 was one of the last Indian raids in the United States. It was part o...
The Dull Knife outbreak of 1878 was one of the last Indian raids in the United States. It was part o...
Cheyenne Autumn is an unflinching historical portrait of a people confronting physical extermination...
Morgan, M.J.During the 1860s, Indian tribes raided frontier settlements across the plains, most nota...
During the 1840s and 1850s, more than 300,000 traders and overland emigrants followed the Platte and...
Morgan, M.J.During the 1860s, Indian tribes raided frontier settlements across the plains, most nota...
Northwest Nebraska, from the 1870s to the early twentieth century, had a complex economic and social...
Northwest Nebraska, from the 1870s to the early twentieth century, had a complex economic and social...
In the summer of 1876, the United States government launched the Great Sioux War, a sharp instrument...
During the 1840s and 1850s, more than 300,000 traders and overland emigrants followed the Platte and...
In the larger context of Plains Indian history, the Northern Cheyenne seem to drop from public consc...