| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Black Kettle: The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace But Found War. By Thom Hatch. (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. xi + 308 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.)
At dawn, 29 November 1864, a Cheyenne and Arapaho camp on Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado was attacked by Colorado volunteer troopers under Colonel John M. Chivington. The several chiefs of the village, Black Kettle of the Southern Cheyennes being the most prominent, had formally expressed their desire for peace and were camped on Sand Creek as directed by the commanding officer at nearby Fort Lyon. The Cheyennes and Arapahos believed themselves to be cooperating with the military and thus free from attack. They were sadly mistaken.	1
In what soon became known as the Sand Creek or Chivington Massacre, approximately 150 Indians, mostly women and children, were killed. Many of their bodies were scalped and otherwise mutilated by Chivington's men. Black Kettle and his wife (with nine wounds on her body) escaped death that day only to meet their demise four years later in an eerily similar attack against their village on Oklahoma's Washita River by George Armstrong Custer and his famed Seventh Cavalry.	. . .

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