Claim: Black Kettle National Grassland was named after a Southern Cheyenne leader killed in the attack led by George Armstrong Custer, the area never became part of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian reservation.
Evidence: The area became part of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian reservation in 1867, but the treaty lands were partitioned and shrunk by multiple federal acts, including the Dawes Act which carved the land into parcels owned by individual households, and was opened to private settlement in 1892.