Dull Knife
Dull Knife
Morning Starwas a great chief of the Northern Cheyenne people and headchief of the Notameohmésêheseband during the 19th century. He was noted for his active resistance to Western expansion and the Federal government. It is due to the courage and determination of Morning Star and other Cheyenne leaders that the Northern Cheyenne still possess a homeland in their traditional country...
came cannot die fighting fights-and-fighting found perish
There we found a Cheyenne cannot live. So we came home. Better it was, we thought, to die fighting than to perish of sickness.
allowed ask father great peace
All we ask is to be allowed to live, and live in peace. We bowed to the will of the Great Father and went south.