The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
But the success itself was real.
The war was won.
The treaty was signed on terms Red Cloud had demanded.
One hundred and fifty-five years later, the treaty is still law.
The Black Hills are still contested.
The billion-dollar trust fund sits unclaimed.
The thread that began at the signing of the 1868 treaty runs unbroken to the present.
Red Cloud’s War.