The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
The Little Bighorn fits the narrative of American tragedy followed by American determination and ultimate triumph.
Red Cloud’s War, which ended in an American concession, does not fit that narrative at all.
There is also a structural problem with how history reaches the public.
The Apache Wars of the Southwest, the Nez Perce War, the Sioux uprising in Minnesota, the Trail of Tears in the Southeast — these are the Indian Wars that appear in school curricula and popular histories.
Red Cloud’s War is less cinematically dramatic — it didn’t produce a single decisive battle on the scale of the Little Bighorn, and its resolution was a negotiated withdrawal rather than a climactic military confrontation.
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