- Wyatt Earp: [Opening Narration] Historians have told as many lies about the American Indian as about any other minority group in the United States. Marshal Wyatt Earp, who knew Indians, did not agree with the Indian-haters who called them unprincipled savages. To Marshal Earp, they were people - some good, some bad - and their leaders were sometimes wrong and sometimes right. This was a dangerous opinion for a man to hold in 1878. It took the fabulous saga of Dull Knife and his fight for freedom to test whether Wyatt Earp's career as a peace officer would come to an end with a prison sentence.