| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes. By John H. Monnett. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xxx, 252 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8061-3303-1.)

This odyssey was violent and brutal as Dull Knife (Morning Star) and Little Wolf tried to lead their people back to their Powder River homeland. Transfer a year earlier to a reservation occupied in part by Southern Cheyennes led immediately to problems. Hunger, malaria, pressure to place their children in agency schools, and clashes with southern council chiefs over leadership issues led Dull Knife and Little Wolf to undertake their perilous journey. 1

The northward trek began after nightfall on September 9, 1878. Within ten hours, cavalry from Fort Reno began to pursue the chiefs and their 350 followers, overtaking them at Turkey Springs in the Cimarron Valley. Although slightly outnumbered, the 60 Cheyenne warriors, skillfully deployed by Little Wolf, forced two companies to break off the engagement. Three times more the warriors fought army units, culminating in a failed ambush on September 27 on Punished Woman's Fork in Kansas, where the Cheyennes lost most of their pony herd and food supplies. As warriors foraged for horses and food in northwestern Kansas, they killed 31 settlers (earlier they had killed 10 other Kansans) and raped about 25 women and young girls. It is uncertain why the warriors ignored harangues by their chiefs and headmen to avoid violence. . . .

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