Chief Black Kettle was a 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.
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship. friendship
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began. war
We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace. peace