The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
The collision between American commercial ambitions and Lakota territorial sovereignty was not accidental.
It was the predictable result of a policy that treated Indigenous territorial claims as obstacles to be managed rather than rights to be respected.
The Man Who Would Not Be Moved
Red Cloud was not born into the leadership that he would eventually achieve.
He was born around 1822 into the Bad Face band of the Oglala Lakota, and he rose to prominence through the combination of military achievement, political skill, and force of personality that characterized leadership among the Oglala.
The Lakota system of leadership was not hereditary in a rigid sense.
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