After surviving the Sand Creek Massacre, Black Kettle takes his remaining band of Southern Cheyenne survivors to a new reservation near the Washita River in Indian Territory. Many of the young men refuse to go and join the Kiowa, Comanche, or Cheyenne Dog Soldiers to fight American invaders. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry are mistakenly told that Black Kettle’s camp is hostile. At dawn, Custer’s soldiers attack the sleeping village. Black Kettle and his wife run out with a white flag, hoping to stop the attack, only to both be shot on sight. The regiment goes on to massacre over 100 Cheyenne (mostly the elderly, women, and children), kill their ponies, and burn the village down. Fifty-three women and children are captured (Nies, 1996). (https://consciencebreachingsocialamnesia.wordpress.com/tag/washita-river-massacre-1868)