Black Kettle

Black Kettle

Make-ta-vatah , also Motavato or Moxtaveto , known as Black Kettle (* around 1803 near the Black Hills , South Dakota , † November 27, 1868) was the chief of the Southern Cheyenne . On February 18, 1861 he signed the Treaty of Fort Wise with other Indians, that of Little Arkansas on October 14, 1865, and that of Medicine Lodge Creek on October 16, 1867.

Together with Lean Bear he visited President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, DC in 1863. On November 29, 1864, Colonel John M. Chivington and the Colorado Militia, the regiments of the 1st and 3rd Colorado Cavalry and the 1st New Mexico Volunteer Militia attacked the Black Kettle and White Antelope tented village on the Sand Creek River, between what is now Firstview and Brandon , Kiowa County ( Colorado ), and murdered around 150 residents of the village, most of the victims women and children. All those killed were scalped and mutilated. In this incident, which went down in history as the Sand Creek Massacre , Chief White Antelope also lost his life. Black Kettle escaped. He died on November 27, 1868, in another raid the White his tent village, this time at the Washita River , Roger Mills County ( Oklahoma ). This raid was the 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel ( Lieutenant Colonel ) George Armstrong Custer committed. Black Kettle died along with around 100 Cheyennes, and most of the victims in this massacre were women and children.

literature

• Dee Brown : Bury my heart at the bend of the river. Knaur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-62804-X
• Ernie Hearting : Moxtaveto (Black Kettle), the tragic fate of the great chief of the Cheyenne Indians (1958)

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This article is based on the article Black Kettle ( memento of July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from the free encyclopedia Indianer Wiki ( memento of March 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and is under Creative Commons by-sa 3.0 . A list of the authors was available in the Indian Wiki ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).