Black Kettle Quotes

• We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

  Black Kettle

  Peace, Home, Sleep

  "The Boy's Book about Indians: Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains". Book by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

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• Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts....Now we are together again to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends have advised me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe the white men any more.

  Black Kettle

  Horse, Believe, Native American

  "Who is the Savage?" by Black Kettle, www.pbs.org. 2001.

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• Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.

  Black Kettle

  Together Again, Done, Making Peace

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• Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

  Black Kettle

  Friendship, Troops, Glad

  "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". Book by Dee Brown, p. 101, 1970.

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• We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

  Black Kettle

  War, Dark, Clouds

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• 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.

  Black Kettle

  Giving, Soldier, Enemy

  Speaking to Colorado Governor Evans, Colonel Chivington, Major Wynkoop and others in Denver (Autumn 1864), as quoted in "The Boy's Book about Indians : Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains" by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

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• But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.

  Black Kettle

  Moving, People, Want

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