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These five black and white photographs show the grave markers for the victims that were killed, September 30, 1878, in the last Indian raid in Kansas. On that day a band of Northern Cheyenne Indians led by Chief Dull Knife killed nineteen settlers along the Sappa Creek in Oberlin, Kansas before continuing north into Nebraska.
Creator: Piper, William C.
Date: Between 1930s and 1950s
Item Number: 305141
Call Number: FK2.D1 O.61.1878 *1-5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 305141
Built Environment - Function - Funerary - Graves/Burials
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Community services - Cemeteries and funeral services
Date - 1930s
Date - 1940s
Home and Family - Death and funerals
Military - Wars - Indian Wars
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - American Indians - Tribes - Cheyenne - Northern Cheyenne
People - Notable Kansans - Dull Knife, 1828-1879
Places - Cities and towns - Oberlin
Places - Counties - Decatur
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Photographs
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