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Dull Knife

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Dull Knife (b. Wahiev, also Tamela Pashme) (?1810–?83) Northern Cheyenne war chief; born near the Rosebud River in present-day Montana. At first friendly to the whites, he turned to war following the Sand Creek (Colo.) massacre (1864). After his people were forced from their homeland into the Indian Territory (1870s), he led a dwindling group on an epic and ultimately successful journey back to the north country.


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The diary then continues with the story of the Powder River Expedition and culminates in Bourke's eyewitness description of Colonel Ranald MacKenzie's destruction of the main Cheyenne camp in what become known as the Dull Knife Fight.
Like a sharp knife, which slices clean and straight, we make clear-cut decisions, but our rationale is often skewed, like a dull knife which can only hack and tear.
Born February 17, 1899, Dull Knife had witnessed almost a century of change for his people, the Lakota (also referred to as Oglala) Sioux of the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota.
 
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