She died at the Washita.

The Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma are the living continuation of the community Black Kettle led.

Their existence is the most important part of his legacy — the community survived.

That is not nothing.

He was trying to protect them, and many of them survived, and their descendants are alive today.

The flags he raised at Sand Creek and the white flags he raised on the same day were not failures.

They were the correct response in the diplomatic framework that existed.