January Moon: The Northern Cheyenne Breakout from Fort Robinson, 1878-1879 Greene Jerome a.

Historian Jerome A. military, including Sand Creek, Washita, and Wounded Knee. Greene is renowned for his memorable chronicles of egregious events involving American Indians and the U.S.

government expelled most Northern Cheyennes from their northern plains homeland to Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. Now, in January Moon, Greene draws from extensive research and fieldwork to explore a signal--and appallingly brutal--event in American history: the desperate flight of Chief Dull Knife's Northern Cheyenne Indians from imprisonment at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.In the wake of the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, the U.S. Following mounting hardships, many of those people, under Chiefs Dull Knife and Little Wolf, broke away, seeking to return north.

While Little Wolf's band managed initially to elude pursuing U.S. troops, Dull Knife's people were captured in