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The Dull Knife Fight

Back in the day on November 25th, 1876, U.S. cavalrymen under the command of Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie laid siege to an encampment of Northern Cheyenne peoples. The raid at dawn known to history as ‘The Dull Knife Fight’ was in retaliation for the losses the U.S. had sustained at the hands of native warriors at the Battle of Little Bighorn earlier in the summer of that year. Chief Dull Knife’s people had fought alongside Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse before becoming the target of Colonel Mackenzie’s revenge. On the morning of the attack, the Northern Cheyenne were driven from the encampment of hundreds of people along the Powder River in Wyoming by the cavalrymen as forty natives were killed in battle. Mackenzie only lost six of his 1,100 strong force of men who then proceeded to destroy all of the nearly two-hundred lodges of the encampment while siezing hundreds of the Cheyenne’s horses. The night after the battle, wintertime temperatures dropped to thirty below zero as eleven infants without shelter froze to death.

Chief Dull Knife summed up the simple wish of his people when he said, “All we ask is to be allowed to live, and live in peace.” Such a request, it seems, was too much to ask of the U.S. government.

For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history