Provenance -- Coming Home -- Time, Place, and the River -- Prison House -- Long Nose -- Commencement -- Violent Night -- Hat Creek Road -- Mortal End -- Scrutiny -- Pine Ridge Interlude -- Denouement -- Reflections -- Homecoming -- List of Indians Wounded -- List of Army Casualties -- Captain Wessells's Account -- Cheyenne Names and Relationships -- General Sheridan's Report to the Adjutant General, February 25, 1879 -- Northern Cheyenne Guns Surrendered or Captured, 1878-1879 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
In gripping detail, Greene follows the survivors' dreadful experiences into their aftermath, including creation of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Carrying the story to the present day, he describes Cheyenne tribal events commemorating the breakout--all designed to ensure that the injustices of nineteenth-century U.S. government policy will never be forgotten
