Red Cloud
Sioux, Oglala
Photograph by Charles M. Bell
Copyright 1880

"Mahpiya Luta," Oglala Sioux Chief (1822-1909)
Red Cloud became the most successful war leader
of the Sioux and Cheyenne during the 1860's and
their campaign to close the Bozeman Trail and keep
the Powder River inviolate. He became one of the few
Indians to win an armed conflict against the U.S. Army.

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