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Black Kettle

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Black Kettle (c. 1803-c. 1868)

Southern Cheyenne peace chief. Despite his attempts at accommodation, his band was massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado, in 1864. Black Kettle continued to seek peace but was killed with his tribe in the Washita Valley, Oklahoma, in 1868.
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Or sometimes, better still, we find them really there by the roadside boiling a mysterious three- legged black kettle over a fire of sticks.
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The boy didn't like this speech, for it sounded like a threat; but he happened to remember he had nuts in his pocket, so he cracked some of those and ate them while the woman rose, shook the crumbs from her apron, and hung above the fire a small black kettle.
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