Chief Red Cloud

Hello there, this is Nelson Olmsted. Today I want to tell you about the only general who ever dictated peace terms to the United States government. Now I'll claim Goober's waiting with a few words from Pacific Power.

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From the Black Hills of Dakota to the big horns in Wyoming, the message spread like the wind. The Ogallala Sioux will fight for their land. Chief Red Cloud has spoken. Representatives from Washington, D.C. believe they could negotiate.

So they called a council in Fort Laramie in June of 1866. Red Cloud and other chiefs, listen. A chief for Red Cloud, we ask only for a passage through the hunting ground of the Sioux.

The road we will build will benefit the Red Man as well as the white. and we will pay you with land, cattle, and money. There is no honor among white men. With one hand you hold out cattle and money to buy a robe.

I have message that you send soldiers with guns to steal it from us. You misunderstand, Chief. Colonel Carrington's men are simply moving north to be ready to go to work when we reached an agreement here.

I will talk to you no more. I will go now. I will fight you. As long as I live, I will fight you for the last hunting grounds of my people." A red cloud and its chiefs stalked out of the meeting, and within weeks, the country along the Bozeman Trail erupted in violence. Colonel Carrington, with 700 poorly trained,