Black Kettle $2,500.00 plus s & hAccepted into the 45th Annual Glendale Juried Fine Arts Exhibit.
Winner Maricopa County Fair, 2008:
First Place in Sculpture Wall-Hanging Class.
Best of Class.
Chief Black Kettle, a Southern Cheyenne leader, firmly believed that his tribe could be preserved only through co-existing with the White Man.
On the morning of September 28, 1864, Black Kettle and his delegation met with John Evans, the territorial governor of Colorado.
The chief made a passionate appeal: “All we ask is that we may have peace with the Whites . . . We want to take good tidings home to our people that they may sleep in peace . . . We are not the enemy. I have not come here with a little wolf’s bark, but have come to talk plain with you . . . We want peace. “
The governor answered Back Kettle’s fervent plea with evasions and recriminations, humiliating the chief in front of his entire delegation. In truth, Governor Evans and his council had no intention of stifling the war frenzy they had created.
At dawn on November 27, 1868, four years and two months after his
impassioned petition (and subsequent to the Sand Creek Massacre) a war-weary Black Kettle and wife, Medicine Woman, were killed during a Bluecoat surprise attack at the sanctuary Cheyenne village on the Washita River, near Fort Cobb, Oklahoma. This vile act of aggression forever changed the peaceful dynamic in the region between the White Man and the Indians.
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