Kintzing Prichette - Later Years and Death

Later Years and Death

After leaving Oregon he went to Washington, D.C. and worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an agent. In that capacity, he dealt with the Santee Sioux in the Iowa Territory during the Inkpaduta affair in 1857. Prichette later served as a United States Consul to Fiji, and died aboard the British flagged brig Rona en route from Sydney to California via Huabeine in the Society Islands. He died from an unknown ailment on April 12, 1869, at the age of 68 and was buried at sea.