The Sioux were not the original inhabitants of the Black Hills. Their people were originally from the Northern Great Lakes and moved westward. Beginning in the early 18th century, the Sioux engaged in ...

Grant called for reforms to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but did little to slow the flood of settlers and prospectors. The government even built a new fort on Lakota land. On this date in 1870, Chief ...

The great Lakota chief Red Cloud at 51, in an 1872 portrait by Alexander Gardner National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives Red cloud started ...

Red Cloud spoke of a saga of promises and hope that his people would one day attain prosperity. But ultimately, the Lakota were left voiceless and misrepresented.

The mescaline in the peyote plant is viewed as God’s spirit, Red Cloud said. “Once we eat it, the sacredness of the medicine is inside of us and it opens the spiritual eye,” he said.

Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.” ― Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota chief ...