The Cheyenne Story: An Interpretation of Courage

What should a man do when the army sends him to help kill his wife's family? His great-great grandson and Northern Cheyenne tribe member, Gerry Robinson, reaches back through time to unravel the emotional and complex story, delivering a historical fiction account of the events which led to the beginning of the Northern Cheyenne’s exile from their home in Southeastern Montana and Northern Wyoming. Five months to the day after Custer’s defeat by the Northern Cheyenne at the Little Bighorn, the U.S. Army descended on the tribe’s main winter camp. Bill Rowland married into the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in 1850, eventually becoming the primary interpreter in their negotiations with the U.S. government. On November 25, 1876, Bill found himself obligated to ride into the tribe’s main winter camp with over a thousand U.S. troops bent on destroying it. Cheyenne Sweet Medicine Chief, Little Wolf, was told they would come and warned his people to leave for safety. But tradition and the protestation