biography
| name: |
Black Kettle
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originally Moketavato
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (?1803–68)
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| biography:
| Southern Cheyenne peace chief, born near the Black Hills in present-day South Dakota, USA. Despite his attempts at accommodation, his band was massacred at Sand Creek, CO (1864). He continued to seek peace but was killed with his tribe in the Washita Valley, OK (1868). |
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