Black Kettle
Tribal chief, Deceased Person
1803 – 1868
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Who was Black Kettle?
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.
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- Born
- 1803
Black Hills - Ethnicity
- Cheyenne people
- Profession
- Lived in
- Oklahoma
- Died
- Nov 27, 1868
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on July 23, 2013
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