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.


Citations

United States, Congress, Senate. Condition of the Indian Tribes: Report of the Joint Special Committee Appointed Under Joint Resolution of March 3, 1865. Government Printing Office, 1867, p. 88.

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Black Kettle
Black Kettle
  • Born:
  • Died: November 27, 1868
  • Nationality: Cheyenne
  • Profession: Leader

Black Kettle (Cheyenne: Mo'ohtavetoo'o) was a prominent leader of the Southern Cheyenne during the American Indian Wars. Born to the Northern Só'taeo'o / Só'taétaneo'o band of the Northern Cheyenne in the Black Hills of present-day South Dakota, he later married into the Wotápio / Wutapai band (one mixed Cheyenne-Kiowa band with Lakota Sioux origin) of the Southern Cheyenne.