A biography of Red Cloud, an Oglala Indian who fought the U.S. government during the 1800s.
" -- Back cover Red Cloud was the only Native American leader ever to win a war against the United States Army. Here, for the first time in print is Red Cloud's 'as-told-to' autobiography in which he shares the story of his early years.
"These images reveal much about Red Cloud - from the height of his position as a tribal leader in the 1870s through his years as an effective and controversial statesman to his old age and death in the early twentieth century.
Centered on Red Cloud?s career, this is an admirably impartial, circumstantial, and rigorously documented study of the relations between the Sioux and the United States government during the years after the Civil War.
mile away, visiting at the home of her son Howard Baker, his wife, Clara, and her two young grandchildren. Also at the Baker homestead that day were a young couple who had stopped on their push west from Wisconsin: Viranus Webster and ...
Places the information about the Lakota chief's life within the larger context of Indian tribal conflicts and Anglo-Indian wars
A biography of the Oglala Indian who rose to leadership in the Sioux nation because of his skill with weapons and words.
He has produced some of the most important books on the American Indian ever written, including Indians of the High Plains, Indians of the Woodlands, Red Cloud's Folk, Spotted Tail's Folk, and Life of George Bent, all published by the ...
"Explains Red Cloud's War, including its chronology, causes, and lasting effects"--
And on two consecutive summer days, battle erupted--drowning the Dakota Territory in a damburst of bloodshed. Second novel in Johnston's Plainsmen series.
For more on Truman's budget, see Michael J. Hogan, A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 98. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.