Show THE IRON COURAGE OF CHIEF DULL KNIFE ON 0 N THE morning of september 10 1878 western military telegraph wires were nere humming with the news dull knife has jumped the reservation army officers who had fought him knew what this meant for morning star wo he h alv I 1 v dull knife was wa the translation of ills his sioux name had proved his mettle one cold winter morning in 1877 when col ranald mackenzie attacked his camp so suddenly that the could only snatch up their rifles and put on their moccasins before tile soldiers were upon them all that bitter day with the I 1 he thermometer 20 below zero these naked warriors had fought off mackenzie until their women and children had escaped after dull knife surrendered he and hla his people were sent to indian territory where they rapidly sickened and died until two thirds of their number had perished la in vain dull knife appealed pealed to the government to return ills people eople p 1 to their old homes finally t in desperation he be and little ay iy wolf the e junior war chief regol resolved ved to tc from their hated reser atlon D kut ut dull knife and a part of the tribe wea ceru captured they were taken to fort F or t robinson neb NL b and imprisoned m in in an old barracks then they told that they must be returned tol tot indian territory dull knife a majestic ini figure in spite of lila ills worn mocca moccasins lins and a ragged blanket I 1 S said aid tell 4 tile the gibat father that dull knife and ills bli people ask only to end their bell days in the north where they were bom boi lell them we want no more war put hut if lie be tries to send us back we will butcher each other with our own knives I 1 have spoken on january the indians refused to start south on oil tile fifth ul they made a des das attempt to escape armed with a few kulics and handguns guns they tried to cut their way through the soldiers ihn hr swarmed about them some were shot down others among them dull knife escaped after IS 18 lays days of wandering during which they kept alive by eating their moccasins and a few roots dull ralfe and ills immediate family reached the camps of his friends this the sioux 4 her fler four 3 ears the old chief was wag allowed to relura to his houie honio in montana where he be died in 1135 ile he lies iles buried on a high butte near the valley of the rosebud river in tile land he loved so well an and d ought fought so hard to regain |