The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
He forced the abandonment of three military forts.
He watched them burn.
He signed a treaty on terms he had demanded.
He lived until 1909, spending forty years of his post-war life fighting, through political means, for the rights the treaty had promised.
He died at Pine Ridge, in the country that was left to his people after everything else was taken.
He did not give up.
He did not stop fighting.
He left behind a legal legacy that is still alive in American courts.
He left behind a story that deserves to be told to every American who thinks they know the history of the West.
His name was Red Cloud.
Remember it.
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