Red Cloud
Red Cloud
Red Cloudwas an important leader of the Oglala Lakota. He led from 1868 to 1909. One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States Army faced, he led a successful campaign in 1866–1868 known as Red Cloud's War over control of the Powder River Country in northeastern Wyoming and southern Montana. The largest action of the war, the Fetterman Fight, was the worst military defeat suffered by the U.S. on the Great Plains until the Battle of the...
NationalitySioux
ProfessionStatesman
goodness seventh taking
After the seventh generation, we would become self-sufficient by taking their goodness and that (goodness) of the Lakota,
kept promised
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.
father warrior land
Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it...
ammunition
You whites make all the ammunition.
ignorant suffering world
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
years world fifty
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
chief name peace received war
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
kept promised took
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.