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A fact from Chico Velasquez appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... 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?
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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. ISBN978-0-674-02099-3.
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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)