I looked toward the chief’s lodge and saw that Black Kettle had a flag tied to the end of a long lodgepole and was standing in front of his lodge, holding the pole, with the flag fluttering in the gray light of the winter dawn. I heard him call to the people not to be afraid, that the soldiers would not hurt them; then the troops opened fire from two sides of the camp.
– George Bent
Describing the Sand Creek massacre of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians by troops under the command of Colonel John Chivington. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown.