His 1880 crime sent him into exile, but he lived another 24 years.
Although Little Wolf had been a renowned war leader and Sweet Medicine chief of the Cheyennes, he failed to remain a leader on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation following his 1879 surrender. The man who had spearheaded the breakout from Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) and led his followers back to their homeland in Montana Territory never quite assimilated to the ways of the reservation. Alcoholism and chronic depression soon consumed his life.
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