| Show STORIES OF GREAT INDIANS by BV elmo watson CuDy right 1021 warn NM patr trie IRON COURAGE OF CHIEF DULL KNIFE 0 OM N till coining gioi nine of september 10 1878 em tern military telegraph ires lre bere ore humming ailta ath the news dull knife has lins jumped tho the jesenu rese tion army N ahu ho had fought him what lint thi this mount for morning 1 star wo volu he liiv lils dull knife nits tho the of ills 11 sioux name hud had proved his tits mettle one cold winter morning in lit 1877 wien cot col Ittin uld mackenzie nt jit tacked hie camp so su aud donly anly lint that the could only snatch ui up their and put on their before the sold soldiers lers acre ere upon i mein all alink ahn bitter day lay alib the 20 below zero ero these naked warriors orders had fought folit flit ot off macken ale until their bonien and children had even ped after dull knife surrendered he wid lilu people nere sent to indian territory oliero they rapidly sickened and died until tuo thirds of their num her ber had perished in dull knife I 1 to the goi to lift people to their old hoines liu ines 11 finally in desperation he and little wolf tho the junior war chief resolved to lead them from front their hated reservation vat lott but dull knife and a part of the bere ere captured they whey bere ere taken to fort neb and anti in prisoner in an old barracks kH ilien they were told that they maust be re turned td to indian territory dull knife a majestic fleure in spite of lila tits worn moccasins and a rugged bla blanket said id teu tell the great pother father that doll dull knife and ills tits people ask only to end their do dae a in the north where they were bom born tell them we wont want no more war but if he tries to send us back we will butcher each other with ith our own knives I 1 I 1 have spoken I 1 on january 5 1870 the indians indiana refused to start south on the fifth night they made a des peato attempt to escape armed with a few knives ond and guns they tried to too cut their way voy through the who swarmed about them some were nere shot down doun others among them dull knife escaped after IS 18 days of wandering wondering during which they kept alive by eating their moccasins and a few roots dull knife and ills ilia immediate family reached the camps of his friends the sioux after four eare earn the old chief was allowed to return to his home in montana where he died in 1885 he lies iles burled buried on n high butte near the valley of the rosebud river in the land h loved lored so well tell and fought ao so hard to regain |
