27 November 1868
ViolenceBook sources
Washita attack
Indian Territory; Southern Cheyenne people
Custer’s Seventh Cavalry attacked Black Kettle’s village, killing him, his wife, and other residents and taking captives. Dunbar-Ortiz situates the attack within campaigns using pressure on civilian communities to defeat resistance.
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Context / qualification
Casualty counts and the exact sequence of Black Kettle’s death are disputed; the ebook’s detailed reconstruction is not adopted as settled fact.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8