Person
Black Kettle
leader of the Southern Cheyenne
Chief Black Kettle (Cheyenne, Moke-tav-a-to) (born ca.
1803, killed November 27, 1868) is a leader of the Southern Cheyenne after 1854, who leads efforts to resist American settlement from Kansas and Colorado territories.
He is a peacemaker who accepts treaties to protect his people.
He survives the Third Colorado Cavalry's Sand Creek Massacre on the Cheyenne reservation in 1864.
He and his wife are among those killed in 1868 at the Battle of Washita River, in a US Army attack on their camp by George Armstrong Custer.