Black Kettle, the same leader
whose people were massacred at Sand Creek, was attacked at the
Washita River in an unprovoked assault by Lieutenant Colonel George
Armstrong Custer. Custer's troops attacked the peaceful
village at dawn after shooting Black Kettle and his wife when they
rode out to meet the troops carrying a white flag of peace.
This was Custer's first 'battle' against Indian people.
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