U.S. Government at Fort Laramie 1868 Burns Fort Phil Kearny 1873 Visits Washington, D.C. 1876 Takes part in the Dull Knife Fight 1877 Ordered to go south to confinement in Oklahoma 1878 Leads dramatic escape from reservation and returns to Montana 1879 Scouts for the U.S. military 1880 Kills Starving Elk; removed as Chief; goes into voluntary exile 1904 Death Cheyenne Timeline 17th-18th century: Migrated from Minnesota to North Dakota 1804: Visited by the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1851: Ft. Laramie Treaty 1859: Colorado Gold Rush 1864: Colorado War 1864: November, Sand Creek massacre 1868: Battle of Washita River 1876: Battle of the Little Bighorn 1877: Moved to Indian Territory 1884: New reservation established near the Black Hills Errata "Little Wolf" is a fairly common name among American Indians. More than one Cheyenne chief bore the name, an early example being a Southern Cheyenne chief who participated in a famous horse-stealing raid (c. 1830) on the Comanches with Yellow Wolf. See also Eugene Little Coyote Marie Sanchez - a direct descendant of Little Wolf. Notes Fisher, Louise; Wayne Leman, Leroy Pine Sr., Marie Sanchez (2006) Cheyenne Dictionary. Lame Deer, Montana: Chief Dull Knife College Britannica Student Encyclopedia Further reading Berthrong, Donald J., The Cheyenne and Arapaho Ordeal: Reservation and Agency Life in the Indian Territory, 1875–1907, University of Oklahoma Press, 1976. Grinnell, George Bird, The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life, Yale University Press, 1924. Grinnell, George Bird, Fighting Cheyennes, University of Oklahoma Press, 1915. Sandoz, Mari, Cheyenne Autumn, McGraw-Hill, 1953. Stands in Timber, John, and Margot Liberty, Cheyenne Memories, Yale University Press, 1967. Svingen, Orlan J., The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation'', 1877–1900, University Press of Colorado, 1993. References External links Cheyenne Honor Little Wolf: Chief led ancestors of today's tribe to homeland in 1879 Little Wolf as Remembered by Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman) This Day in History: March 25, 1879, Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf surrenders 1820s births Year of birth uncertain 1904 deaths Native American leaders Northern Cheyenne people People of the Great Sioux War of 1876 People of pre-statehood Montana