Saturday, September 27, 2014

September 28, 1864---Edward Wynkoop and Black Kettle forge a separate peace



SEPTEMBER 28, 1864:    

After a vicious summer of Indian war on the Great Plains, Major Edward Wynkoop brings Chief Black Kettle and other Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs to Denver to finalize a peace agreement between the tribes and the Federal government. Black Kettle’s “Dog Soldiers” agree to lay down their arms and they release white captives in exchange for an agreement not to be harassed by settlers and soldiers.