But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
Black Kettle Quotes
All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.
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| Birth: | 1803 |
| Death: | 27th November, 1868 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Leader |
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Black Kettle was an American leader of the Southern Cheyenne after 1854, who led efforts to resist American settlement from Kansas and Colorado territories. He was a peacemaker who accepted treaties to protect his people. He survived the Third Colorado Cavalry's Sand Creek Massacre on the Cheyenne reservation in 1864. He and his wife were among those killed in 1868 at the Battle of Washita River, in a US Army attack on their camp by George Armstrong Custer.
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