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“No,” said Little Wolf. Little Wolf did not know the Army had upgraded the status of the Tongue River Cantonment on November 8, 1878, to Fort Keogh.When word spread that Little Wolf’s people had broken out of the Sand Hills and were traveling northwest, the Department of Dakota mobilized.

Any Cheyenne or Arapaho "head of a family"—an adult, married man by Euro-American standards of the day—would receive 320 acres of land as well as seeds and agricultural supplies if he promised to become a farmer. Therefore, it’s best to use Encyclopedia.com citations as a starting point before checking the style against your school or publication’s requirements and the most-recent information available at these sites:Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
Little WolfFamed Cheyenne chief and leader of the Bowstring Warriors, Little Wolf (c. 1818-1904) defied the U.S. government and led 300 Cheyenne from an Indian reservation in Oklahoma back to their homeland in southeastern Montana.

Much of the credit must be given to naturalist George Bird Grinnell. Name With the capture of Shortly after their forced exile to the humid climate of Indian Territory, the northerners began to sicken. He was also chosen as Sweet Medicine Chief… Very little is known of the early life of Little Wolf. Desperate for fresh mounts and provisions to replace those lost at Punished Woman’s Fork, and determined to stay ahead of the pursuing troops, Cheyenne foragers, mostly young warriors, raided homesteads in Decatur and Rawlins counties. I consider him the greatest Indian I have ever known.”Dorothy Parker, poet, satirist and founding member of the Algonquin Round Table.Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader from 1977 to 1987, held nominal leadership position until his death in 1997.Ray Bradbury, science fiction writer whose works include Delmar Allen "Dale" Hawkins, pioneer rockabilly singer/songwriter ("Suzy Q").Valerie Harper, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda).Kathy Lennon, singer, member of the Lennon Sisters.Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist who helped develop the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor.Donna Godchaux, singer with The Grateful Dead and Heart of Gold Band.HistoryNet.com is brought to you by Historynet LLC, the world's largest publisher of history magazines. He was born some time between 1818 and 1820, probably closer to the latter year, in southeastern Montana, the home of his tribe, the Northern Cheyenne.

An army officer once told me that thirteen thousand troops were hurrying over the country to capture or kill these few poor people who had left the fever-stricken South, and in the face of every obstacle were steadily marching northward.“The War Department set all its resources in operation against them, yet they kept on.

About 1864 the Cheyenne Council of Forty-four chose Little Wolf one of the four Old Man chiefs of the tribe. He participated in the Fetterman Fight in 1866, losing his brother Big Nose in the engagement. The group split into two bands, one led by Little Wolf and the other by Morning Star. But Little Wolf resolved to never again let his people down. In that treaty the Cheyenne and Arapaho agreed to accept "for their permanent home" land amid the Southern Arapaho or the Brule band of the Lakota nation. Here, game was plentiful, and there were plenty of places to hide from pursuers.

There were practically no depredations. Catherine Denial is an Associate Professor of History at Knox College in Galesburg, IL.

They became good friends, and Little Wolf helped gather information for the lieutenant’s book on sign language. “Toward the end of his life… I disregarded the tribal feeling about him and used to pass him my pipe to smoke. As chief, he signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Lieutenant H. W. Lawton of the U.S. Fourth Cavalry arrived in The conditions in Darlington, unfortunately, were not what they had been promised. He was still a young man, perhaps thirty-five when the most trying crisis in the history of his people came upon them. Hunger augmented disease that cold winter. Later he went to Montana and then to Pine Ridge, where he and his people remained in peace until they were removed to Lame Deer, By Charles A. Eastman, 1918.