Template:Did you know nominations/Chico Velasquez

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 12:21, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Chico Velasquez

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• ... that Native American leader Chico Velasquez was killed by smallpox carried on a coat given to him as a reward by an American agent? "Velasquez and his fellow tribesman Tamouche had also particiapted in a manhunt for a suspected murderer. Being paid "each a gray cloth coat"... they had also just contracted small pox ... and every one that received a coat died" from: Blackhawk, Ned (30 June 2009). Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. Harvard University Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-674-02099-3.
  • ALT1:... that Native American leader Chico Velasquez reputedly wore leggings decorated with the fingernails of his defeated enemies, American down one leg and Mexican down the other? "the ornaments of his 'legings' being the fingernails of Americans on one side and of Mexicans on the other" in quoting an account from trader Auguste Lacome in: Simpson, James Hervey (2003). Navaho Expedition: Journal of a Military Reconnaissance from Santa Fe, New Mexico to the Navaho Country Made in 1849. University of Oklahoma Press. p. xlii. ISBN 978-0-8061-3570-0.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Angus McIntosh (linguist)

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 09:19, 6 July 2021 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Dumelow: Great work as usual. Not a big issue, but the sentence He afterwards succeeded Blanco as chief of the Jicarilla[11][10] is missing a period. 16:29, 7 July 2021 (UTC)