Interesting story about the Northern Cheyenne and goes back to the time when they were captured and interred at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. A group of them eventually escaped and ran back to Montana where their people remain today. The article is about an annual run where Northern Cheyenne youth run from Crawford, Neb to Busby MT honoring the memories of the people who escaped, somehow managed to survive and ran to Montana.
Here are some excerpts from the article.
"110 Northern Cheyenne youths who made this year's run. The event, started in 1996 by Phillip Whiteman Jr., and his family, commemorates the Jan. 9, 1879, escape of 150 Cheyenne people from wooden barracks at Fort Robinson, Neb."
"The outbreak is held as a key chapter in the Cheyenne's struggle and of their sacrifice to return to their homeland in 1879.
Mainly women and children, the group had been held without food, water or heat before they decided to risk death by escaping to return to Montana. Most were killed during the escape, but 26 fled into the hills and traveled 40 miles before the U.S. Calvary caught up and killed them. They were buried where they had sought cover, a place known at "The Last Hole." In 1993, the last of their remains were repatriated to Montana."
Others in the group managed to evade capture and made it to Montana. Just another example of what Native Americans went through many years ago in this country.
Here is a link to the entire article:
Warriors' Run