The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
The story of Red Cloud’s War is the story of one of history’s great acts of resistance — sustained, sophisticated, costly, and ultimately successful in its specific objective.
The story of what followed is the story of how even that success was eventually overwhelmed by the forces it had briefly held back.
The title of this article is exact: The Lakota leader forced the U.S.
Army to abandon its forts.
He won a war most Americans have never learned about.
That most Americans haven’t learned about it is itself a statement about the history Americans have chosen to tell and the history they have chosen to ignore.
The history is there.
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