Chief of the proud Oglala Sioux tribe, Red Cloud (1822-1909) saw his people defeated and forced onto United States reservations. Born on a tributary of the North Platte River in Nebraska, Red Cloud early distinguished himself as a warrior. By the 1860s...

Born c. September 20, 1822Nebraska Died December 10, 1909Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota Native American (Lakota) tribal leader and warrior Red Cloud. © . "I was born a Lakota...

For the city in Nebraska, see Red Cloud Red Cloud Standing:Red Bear, Young Man Afraid of his Horse, Good Voice, Ring Thunder, Iron Crow, White Tail, Young Spotted Tail. Seated: Yellow Bear, Jack Red Cloud, Big Road, Little Wound, Black Crow; c1860-1880...

RED CLOUD Warrior Statesman of the Lakota Sioux Robert W. Larson University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1997. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. xvi + 336 pp. $24.95. The annals of western history are filled with many interesting and famous characters. Whether great...

The cat had to come into restaurants. She was too rare, there were "catnappers." So your parka went down over the carrying-case, like a parrot's silence-cloth, and you gripped the handle through it, hoped the waitress kept her eyes up, on me. ...

Tribal police Thursday shut down a volunteer blockade aimed at keeping beer out of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where alcoholism is rampant, and arrested three organizers who refused to leave.Only a few vehicles had been checked for alcohol by the time Oglala Sioux tribal...

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