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 ...

A political leader and a fierce warrior, Red Cloud, chief of the Oglala Sioux, fought unsuccessfully to save his people and their land from being seized by whites. Born in 1822 in what was then ...

He received a delegation of Native Americans at the White House, including the Oglala Sioux chief Red Cloud. He advanced a policy of peace. Grant also abided by the provisions of the second Fort ...