The Chief Who Wanted Peace And Died For It — The Tragic Story Of Black Kettle
These findings are now part of the permanent federal record.
The site is co-managed by the National Park Service and by representatives of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, a collaborative management structure that gives the descendant communities a formal role in how the site is interpreted and maintained.
This is not a perfect resolution of the complicated questions raised by the massacre, but it is a genuine acknowledgment that the descendants have a stake in how the site is understood.
Physical evidence at the site — including landscape features and the results of archaeological surveys — has helped confirm the location of the camp and the direction of the attack.
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