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The Cheyenne Go On Trial

by | Jul 2, 2018 | True West Blog

In September 1878, Chief Dull Knife and his band of Northern Cheyenne left the reservation in the Indian Territory, headed for their ancestral lands in the Black Hills. En route, they attacked several cattle camps and settlements in Kansas. More than two dozen whites died before the Indians were hunted down in Nebraska (and many were killed). Only a handful survived to surrender i


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