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Chief Red Cloud (1821-1909), once regarded by white America as the "epitome of Lakota aggressiveness," walked an unenviable path as envoy of an outnumbered, outgunned exiled tribe in negotiations ...
The great Lakota chief Red Cloud at 51, ... The best-known Indian leader of his time, Red Cloud had become a warrior in clashes with the U.S. military in the Northern Plains.
But, frankly, neither historical side — not Red Cloud, the remarkable Oglala Lakota chief of the Western Sioux tribes, and his bloodthirsty warriors fighting to save their adopted land, nor the ...
Meanwhile, Red Cloud flexed his muscles as a diplomat, convincing the Arapaho to join his Lakota Sioux tribe's resistance. He also sought peace with another tribe, the Crow.
Chief Red Cloud, the Lakota warrior for whom the Jesuit-run educational mission is named, is buried in the school's historic cemetery. The school, and its annual art show, draws more than 10,000 ...
The ancestor was the Indian agent who moved the Oglala Lakota to a Reservation in South Dakota. Would Chief Red Cloud have given such a gift to a U.S. government official?
A lifelong champion of Lakota culture. A delegate to the United Nations. A descendant of one of the most important leaders in Native American history. Those were a few of the terms that family and ...
In the 1860s, the Lakota and their allies, led by chief Red Cloud, closed an immigrant route and made it stick. Skip to main content. ... Indians, principally Lakota and Cheyenne, ...
Founded in 1888 by the Jesuits at the request of the revered Chief Red Cloud, at Red Cloud Indian School, 600 Lakota students in grades K-12 receive access to opportunities and resources that not ...
Over 100 attendees filed into the First Mennonite Church of Champaign-Urbana on Monday night to hear Chief Henry Red Cloud of the Oglala Lakota Nation deliver a lecture about sustainable housing ...
As initial reports of a mass murder of Lakota Native Americans on December 29, 1890, trickled across the nation, newspapers were quick to place the blame on the Lakota. “Indian treachery once ...
The ancestor was the Indian agent who moved the Oglala Lakota to a Reservation in South Dakota. Would Chief Red Cloud have given such a gift to a U.S. government official?