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Music It's around 10 p.m. on January 9th, 1879, at Fort Robinson, a U.S. military fort in Nebraska.

Northern Cheyenne Chief Morningstar, also known as Dull Knife, leads his tribe across the Fort Grounds.

Here and there, surreptitiously, some Cheyenne warriors stopped to retrieve weapons they hid for tonight's escape.

For months, Morningstar and his people have been kept here by the United States Army.

Recently, the tribe has been deprived of food, water, and heat for four days, and many Cheyenne

have died in the terrible conditions. So tonight, Morning Star and his people are going to break

out of Fort Robinson once and for all. The plan is to make a bold return to their ancestral

lands in Montana. This is in defiance of the U.S. government, which has been trying to

force the Cheyenne to move to Oklahoma, but Morningstar and his tribe refused to be bullied any further.

As the Cheyenne moved through the fortgrounds, a group of soldiers take notice. The escape attempt

is discovered, and the quiet prairie night immediately explodes into violence as the U.S.

army opens fire. The tribe breaks into a sprint, heading north toward the hills. The armed Cheyenne

warriors stay in fight, trying to give the rest of the group more time to escape. But after days

of starvation, the tribe is weakened, and it's difficult to flee quickly.

Cheyenne men, women, and children are all struck down as they attempt their escape.

Chief Morningstar is heartbroken, as dozens of his people die all around him,

while other Cheyenne are grabbed by soldiers and dragged back toward the barracks of the fort.

But the chief knows that he and the remainingacks of the fort. But the chief knows

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