Black Kettle Quotes
We have been traveling through a cloud; the sky has been dark ever since the war began.… We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace. I want ... 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 for enemies.
Black Kettle, ?-1868, Cheyenne Indian Chief, September 1864
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“Cleaned out” meant destroyed. He had been a strong advocate of peace with whites. See {610679} .
This is the quotation that came to define Chamberlain’s naivety for history and the icon of failed diplomacy. However to see the beginning of the sequence of events that would lead up to this statement, see {585940} when Chamberlain suggested the infamous meeting in Munich. There had been an interesting history to Chamberlain’s appeasement of Germany. 39 years earlier, Chamberlain’s father, then Britain’s Colonial Secretary, and advocated a natural alliance with Germany. See Joseph Chamberlain, 1836-1914: {585939}.
The first Bishop in Britain, sent by Pope Gregory in 597. This was in large part fulfilled in 607 when Ethelfrith led Saxon troops to Wales killing many including 200 priests who had been sent to pray for the Welsh.
- 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.
