Black Kettle Quotes

Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well? - Black Kettle

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 you keep nudging each other. - Black Kettle

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

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

We are different nations, but it seems as if we were but one people, whites and all. - Black Kettle

These people that are with us are glad to think that we can have peace once more, and can sleep soundly, and that we can live. - Black Kettle

The white people can go wherever they please and they will not be disturbed by us, and I want you to let them know. - 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. - Black Kettle

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 to believe the white man any more. - Black Kettle

I have not come here with a little wolf bark, but have come to talk plain with you. - Black Kettle

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