Dull Knife

Upon the Plains
The buffalo range
The Northern Cheyenne
call it their home

The winds blows free
Across the tallgrass prairie
From the Osage to
Manitoba

The winters are bleak
The summers were sweet
They followed the tatanka
Wherever they would go

For there was life
In the beasts and wildlife
They rode the big dogs
Hunted with the bow , arrow and knife

And brave were the warriors
Who the white man they resisted
And Dull Knife
was bravest of all

He once killed a bear
With no more than a knife
And was wounded
Many times in the wars

He was given the name
Of Dull Knife
When his knife wouldn't
Penetrate a shield

So he overcame his foe
with only bare hands
And the warriors
called him Dull Knife

He resisted to the end
Even though he couldn't win
Morning Star was his
Real given name

So when you look to the east
Over the ghosts of the beasts
Of what prairie
That there remains

Maybe you will catch
Just a glimpse in your eye
Of a fleeting
Morning Star




Tatanka - Indian for buffalo

Big Dogs - Indians have no word for horse in
any of their language . So they called horses
big dogs