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They live today in the Lame Deer, Montana (Mo'ȯhtávȯheomenéno – ″black-lodge-place″) district on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. Lame Deer, the tribal and government agency headquarters, was also the place where rations were given out and is known as Meaveʼhoʼeno – ″the giving place″ or ″giving-whiteman-place″.
Lame Deer (Meaveʼhoʼeno in Cheyenne [3]) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rosebud County, Montana, United States. The community is named after Miniconjou Lakota chief Lame Deer, who was killed by the U.S. Army in 1877 under a flag of truce south of the town. [4] It was the site of a trading post from the late 1870s. [5]
Chief Dull Knife College is a public tribal land-grant community college on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana. It is an open-admission college with about 141 students. On average, more than half of its graduates move on to four-year colleges.
Lame Deer's mother died of tuberculosis in 1920. His father moved north to Standing Rock Indian Reservation soon after and left Lame Deer with land and livestock, which Lame Deer quickly sold. [3] Lame Deer's life as a young man was rough and wild; he traveled the rodeo circuit as a rider and later as a rodeo clown.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office is closing its investigation into the Dec. 2, 2021, fatal shooting of Arlin Bordeaux by a BIA officer in Lame Deer.
Morning Star (Cheyenne: Vóóhéhéve; [1] also known by his Lakota Sioux name Tȟamílapȟéšni or its translation, Dull Knife [2] [3]) (c. 1810–1883) was a great chief of the Northern Cheyenne people and headchief of the Notameohmésêhese ("Northern Eaters"; also simply known as Ȯhmésėhese or "Eaters") band on the northern Great Plains during the 19th century.
Lame Deer was the second signatory of the 1865 Treaty With The Sioux-Miniconjou Band at Fort Sully, Dakota Territory (now just southeast of Pierre, South Dakota): "Tah-ke-chah-hoosh-tay, The Lame Deer, 1st chief of the Minneconjon band of Dakota or Sioux Indians".
John Woodenlegs is a central figure in the 19-minute documentary Cheyenne Autumn Trail, produced in late 1964 to coincide with the October 3 world premiere in the Wyoming capital, Cheyenne, of John Ford's western epic, Cheyenne Autumn, which focuses upon the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878–79 and features Chief Dull Knife as one of the lead characters.