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Black Kettle

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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.


— Black Kettle


#been #began #cloud #dark #ever

Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?


— Black Kettle


#straight #talk #well #why #you

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.


— Black Kettle


#father #hand #hold #our #our father

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.


— Black Kettle


#behind #friendship #glad #meet #peace

But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.


— Black Kettle


#could #down #his way #i #keep

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.


— Black Kettle


#give #here #i #i want you #made

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.


— Black Kettle


#good #home #may #our #our people

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.


— Black Kettle


#each #friends #intrigues #keep #now






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Medicine Lodge Treaty
Black Kettle's dwindling band proclaimed their desire to live peacefully alongside European Americans. The Council met regularly at the Sun Dance gatherings where they affirmed unity. On September 28 he concluded a peace settlement at Fort Weld outside Denver.

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. He was a peacemaker who accepted treaties to protect his people.

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