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War Bonnet
Birth: unknown
Death: 11-1864
Biography
War Bonnet was a leader of the Cheyenne tribe during the turbulent period of transition by Great Plains tribes to life on U.S. reservations from the 1850s through the 1870s. He was one of several Native American delegates from the Southern Plains who traveled to Washington, D.C. in March 1863 to visit President Abraham Lincoln and to air their grievances. He was killed at the Sand Creek Massacre on November 29, 1864. He is referenced as one of the "Indian Chiefs" in a letter written by Joseph Camp Griffin Kennedy to Frances Miller Seward, dated March 26, 1863.
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War Bonnet was a leader of the Cheyenne tribe during the turbulent period of transition by Great Plains tribes to life on U.S. reservations from the 1850s through the 1870s. He was one of several Native American delegates from the Southern Plains who traveled to Washington, D.C. in March 1863 to visit President Abraham Lincoln and to air their grievances. He was killed at the Sand Creek Massacre on November 29, 1864. He is referenced as one of the "Indian Chiefs" in a letter written by Joseph Camp Griffin Kennedy to Frances Miller Seward, dated March 26, 1863.