Chief Black Kettle:I want you to give 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 by them for enemies.
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Nov 30 2010
146th Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre of Nov. 29th, 1864
Nov 25 2009
145th Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre of Nov. 29th, 1864
Chief Black Kettle:I want you to give 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 by them for enemies.
Nov 24 2008
144th Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre of Nov. 29th, 1864
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Chief Black Kettle:I want you to give 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 by them for enemies.
Nov 29 2007
143rd Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre of Nov. 29th, 1864
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Chief Black Kettle:I want you to give 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 by them for enemies.
A Cheyenne cemetery is in the same direction as where my mother told me she watched gypsies camp through her west window as a girl, about ½ mile from that house. I have reverently walked though that Cheyenne cemetery as early as ten, looking at the headstones and wondering who they were and where they came from. I did not know then, that in that cemetery were descendants from the Sand Creek Massacre.
Nov 02 2007
Black Kettle and the Sand Creek Massacre of Nov. 29th, 1864 (Part 2)
Chief Black Kettle:
I want you to give 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 by them for enemies.
Oct 02 2007
Roman Nose and the Sand Creek Massacre of Nov. 29th, 1864 (Part 1)
“…Roman Nose made his record against the whites, in defense of territory embracing the Republican and Arickaree rivers. He was killed on the latter river in 1868, in the celebrated battle with General Forsythe.
Roman Nose always rode an uncommonly fine, spirited horse, and with his war bonnet and other paraphernalia gave a wonderful exhibition. The Indians used to say that the soldiers must gaze at him rather than aim at him, as they so seldom hit him even when running the gantlet before a firing line…”