1878–1879

Northern Cheyenne return from Indian Territory

Indian Territory to northern Plains

Cheyenne people fled intolerable confinement and attempted to return north. Military pursuit and recapture exposed families to renewed violence; resistance eventually contributed to a northern land base.

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Context / qualification

Separate the flight from the later Fort Robinson killings when developing a more granular account.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8

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