Black Kettle : The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace but Found War
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.81092
EAN: 9780471445920
ISBN: 0471445924
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 25, 2004
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Editorial Review:Product Description:The Compelling, Tragic Story of a Great Cheyenne Chief
As white settlers poured into the west during the nineteenth century, many famous Indian chiefs fought to stop them, including Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo. But one great Cheyenne chief, Black Kettle, understood that the whites could not be stopped. To save his people, he worked unceasingly to establish peace and avoid bloodshed. Yet despite his heroic efforts, the Cheyennes were repeatedly betrayed and would become the victims of two notorious massacres, the second of which cost Black Kettle his life. In this first biography of black Kettle, historian Thom Hatch at last gives us the full story of this illustrious Native American leader, offering an unforgettable portrait of a chief who sought peace but found war.
Praise For Thom Hatch
The Blue, the Gray, and the Red
"Clear and even-handed. . . . This popular history recounts grim, bloody, lesser-known events of the Civil War. . . . The slaughter of Black Kettle's Cheyennes at Sand Creek . . . forms a devastating chapter."
-Publishers Weekly
The Custer Companion
"Highly recommended . . . a reliable and impartial guide to the subject and literature."
-Library Journal
Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn
"A work that is readable by itself, meticulously researched and clearly written."
-The Tulsa World
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"Black Kettle: The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace but Found War", is an excellently written; interesting and moving story about the major events in the life of an important Native American "Peace Chief". The story begins with the days of freedom on the vast plains of North America and ends with the tragic death of Black Kettle at the Washita.
Mr. Hatch states in his introduction that with all the books written about Native Americans who choose war that it was time to write a book about a Native American who choose peace. I could not agree more, and Black Kettle was an excellent choice. Black Kettle made a very difficult choice in a personal sense, yet the right one if the Cheyenne were to have any hope of survival and preserve what little autonomy and freedom they might possibly preserve in the face of the pernicious and overwhelming aggression against them.
So where was Black Kettle's victory through all this suffering and sacrifice?
Read Mr. Hatch's book especially the last chapter "Legacy" in order to get the author's thoughts on Black Kettle's meaning when he said, "It was like coming through fire", for perhaps an answer.
The book was a smooth read for me and through every page it held my interest. Chapter 8 "The Sand Creek Massacre" was difficult emotionally. I felt a combination of sadness, and anger at the awful cruelties inflicted and the duplicity of the political leaders both federal and state. The idea that streets of Denver are actually named after these cold blooded killers both in and out of uniform boggles the mind.
I give Thom Hatch great applause for taking the time and extensive research to write this tragic history.
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Many thanks for a valuable source and a great story -
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Thom Hatch hits the mark on Cheyenne Indian Chief Black Kettle's efforts to uphold peaceful relations throughout manifest destiny. Despite broken treaty after broken treaty by the government and gluttonous bone-headed army generals with personal vendettas and lack of respect for the Indians, it is a wonder that Black Kettle maintained his philosophy on peace for so many years.
It is disheartening that the vision of peace is what eventually killed him along with many of his people.
If surviving the brutal and senseless butchery of Sand Creek Massacre by egotistical Colonel Chivington wasn't enough punishment, Black Kettle was to soon afterwards undergo additional tests of endurance from the thoughtless and misguided behavior of the U. S. military and government.
A very persuasive, gripping and touching account of one man's dream of peace.
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This work explores the efforts of a great Cheyenne chief who, despite his betrayal by the white man, continued his search for peace, only to lose his life in the process. It reveals how Black Kettle stood in stark contrast to Chivington, Sherman, Sheridan, Custer and others, who enthusiastically effected our government's policy of destroying the culture of the Plains Indians and killing, with little or no excuse, innocent tribal menbers. Make no mistake, there were elements within the tribes who were no better. However, one cannot read this well-written account without coming away with a sense of revulsion toward those members of the white power structure and our military who made so little effort to understand a people who were different and to treat them with the respect they deserved. Read this book if you want to know more than one will find within the usual histories written by the victors.
Copyright ©2003, Mark Carey.
