Fort Robinson Break Out Spiritual Run honors Cheyenne tribal past

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AUTHOR: Mike Stark, Billings Gazette Staff Writer

The young Northern Cheyennes woke before dawn Thursday and began running in
subzero temperatures in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The young men and women slogged through the wind and snow, retracing on foot
a historic 400-mile trek their ancestors took 126 years ago after breaking out
of the barracks at Fort Robinson, Neb., en route to Montana.

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