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Information = Magazine Page, Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper; February 15, 1879, NE the Escape of the Cheyenne Indians from Fort Robinson
Description = In 1877 the government sent one thousand Northern Cheyennes to a reservation in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), where many died from disease and malnutrition. In September 1878, more than 300 Northern Cheyennes attempted to return to their homeland. Chief Little Wolf's band hid in the Nebraska Sand Hills, finally reaching safety in Montana. The army captured Chief Dull Knife's band and confined them at Fort Robinson. The Cheyennes broke out of their barracks prison on January 9, 1879, but with a terrible loss of life. In the twelve days of fighting that followed, sixty-four of the Cheyennes died and seventy-eight were recaptured. About fifty-four Indians made it to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and were later allowed to go to Montana.
February 15, 1879, The Escape of the Cheyenne from Fort Robinson; Engravings of the Cheyenne & U.S. troops at Fort Robinson COLORS: ink black. paper brown TECHNIQUE: printed
Source = NSHS Permanent Collection, Nebraska State Historical Society
Date = 1879
Author = Unknown
Permission = Content is available under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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