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Apr 2, 2014 · Red Cloud was a chief of the Oglala Lakota tribe. He is best known for his success in confrontations with the U.S. government.
Red Cloud's War was the name the U.S. Army gave to a series of conflicts fought with Native American Plains tribes in the Wyoming and Montana Territories. The battles were waged between the Northern Cheyenne, allied with Lakota and Arapaho bands, against the Army from 1866 to 1868.
Feb 15, 2024 · Red Cloud (Makhpiya-luta, l. 1822-1909) was an Oglala Lakota Sioux chief, statesman, and military strategist who became the only Native American leader of the Plains Indians to win a war against the United States.
- Joshua J. Mark
Oct 14, 2024 · Red Cloud (born 1822, on the Platte River, Nebraska Territory, U.S.—died December 10, 1909, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota) was a principal chief of the Oglala Lakota (Oceti Sakowin, or Sioux), who successfully resisted (1865–67) the U.S. government’s development of the Bozeman Trail to newly discovered goldfields in Montana Territory.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 20, 2024 · Red Cloud (Makhpiya-luta, l. 1822-1909) was an Oglala Lakota Sioux chief, who opposed white settlement of Sioux lands, the opening of the Bozeman Trail in 1863, and especially, the construction of garrisoned forts in the region to protect settlers from Native American attacks.
- Joshua J. Mark
Nov 20, 2012 · Summary: Red Cloud (1822–1909) was a famous Native America chief and war leader of the Oglala Sioux Indians who fought against the US government's attempts to build forts along the Bozeman Trail in Wyoming and Montana. This conflict became known as Red Cloud's War 1865–1868. He died on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1909.
May 23, 2018 · 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.
