Black Kettle

Cheyenne chief

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In Sand Creek Massacre
…army and the Indigenous peoples, Black Kettle, White Antelope, and some 30 other Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs and leaders had brought their people, as “Friendly Indians of the Plains,” to the site along the Sand Creek near Fort Lyon in accordance with instructions issued by Colorado Territorial Gov. John Evans…
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In Plains Wars: The Civil War on the Plains
…Cheyenne and Arapaho followers of Black Kettle, who was known to be attempting to make peace. Swearing, according to a fellow officer, to “damn any man that was in sympathy with Indians,” Chivington and his Colorado volunteers swept into the village just after sunup on November 29. They slaughtered between…
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