I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.
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We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.Black Kettle
But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
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These people that are with us are glad to think that we can have peace once more, and can sleep soundly, and that we can live.
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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The Cheyennes do not fight at all this side of the Arkansas, but north some young warriors were fired upon and then the fight began.
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We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
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