RED CLOUD

SUMMARY

• Born in Nebraska in 1822
• chief of the Oglala Lakota tribe
• best known for his success in confrontations with the U.S. government
• Died in 1909

SIDE

• organized resistance to white expansion into his people's territory
• United different Native American groups and led the Fetterman massacre
• Red Cloud later succeeded when Grant decided to abandon the forts in the northern part of the Bozeman trail.

RELATIONSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT

• Refused to sign several treaties with the U.S.
• stormed out of negotiations held at Fort Laramie
• Red Cloud resisted government efforts to move him and his people from their lands