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Quote from Chief Dull Knife is: “All that we ask is that we be allowed to live, and to live in peace.” I believe this to be true today. Today I think if he saw us, he would be proud of us, but he would also give us some important advice. I don’t know what he would say or what that advice would be, but I think it is important for us all to think about what he did for our people in the flight from Indian Territory in 1878. This may help us be better people even if we aren’t leaders.
Leo Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation of southeastern Montana, is assistant professor of American Indian Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
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From The mouth of Battle Canyon & one mile beyond to the south is Punished Woman Fork Valley. There Lt. Col. Lewis & his troops entered the valley & were first engaged by Little Wolf's Cheyenne.

The Battle of Punished Woman Fork, also known as the Battle of Squaw’s Den Cave, was the last Indian battle in Kansas. It occurred when Chief Dull Knife and Little Wolf, of the Northern Cheyenne, decided to lead their people from their reservation near Fort El Reno, Oklahoma back to their former home in the north. The Cheyenne included 92 warriors, 120 women, and 141 children. As they came through Kansas, crossing the Arkansas River at the Cimarron Crossing, Lieutenant-Colonel William H. Lewis, commander at Fort Dodge, was dispatched to capture and return them.

Battle Canyon in Scott County, Kansas was the site of the Battle of Punished Woman's Fork, the last encounter between Native Americans and United States Troops in the State of Kansas. The Northern Cheyenne under the leadership of Chief Dull Knife and Little Wolf were trying to return to their former home in the north after escaping from a reservation at Fort Reno, Oklahoma.