Black Kettle Quotes

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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…
• We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
• We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
• 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,…
• Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.
• But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
• Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
• All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.
• We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council…
• 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…
• Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

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