Show RED CLOUD VICTOR IN AN AMERICAN WAR WARTHE WARTHE HE average school histories assert THE that America has been victorious In ht all of her her wars But they are strangely silent about a con conflict lct In which one man defied the power of ot the United States and ond dictated his own terms of ot peace That man was Red lied Cloud a Luta chief of the Ogallala Stour Sioux c. c When government commissioners sought Rought the right to build forts fats along the Bozeman trail to the Montana gold goIt fields Red Bed Cloud steadfastly opposed opposed opposed op op- posed this encroachment on the choicest choicest choicest est hunting grounds of ot the Sioux In Ina a 11 council of ot his people he declared Dakotas I am tor lor war l 1 Col H. H B IJ n. Carrington entered Wyoming nevertheless to build the forts torts and nud Red Bed Cloud sent him this defiant message I shall stand In Inthe inthe Inthe the trail trait A war followed In lu the Ogallala leader killed t 81 soldiers under Colonel Fetterman near Fort Phil Kearney I This loss was a avenged the next net year car when Red ned Cloud lost half of or the tIre warriors whom he sent against 32 soldiers In a n wagon hex box corral Despite this reverse Red fled Cloud remained remained re re- master of ot the situation In he d his ultimatum to n ft peace commission The Time forts torts must be abandoned and all nil further attempts to open the time Montana road must cease More than that he fixed the boundaries boundaries boundaries boun boun- daries of or the Sioux country to suit himself The commissioners agreed to every ery demand for the Ogallala chief refused even cn to meet them until the garrisons had actually been with with- drawn n I His victory was complete From the day he signed the treaty ne kept his promise to live at peace with whites one Ninety t one years ears old blind almost deaf dent he sits dreaming of ot the past past writes one oue who visited him then No Ne wonder he Is Irritated by bythe bythe the thc Idle Information seel seeker er Who would be called culled back from the dreams of ot his youth SI Sightless and Infirm he lie Is Js reliving rell the days of ot youth his his when he sat on his horse as king the pride of the great grent Sioux nation To his ears eats must conic come the roar of ot the hunt as the time countless bison herd herds like a n tidal wave rolls b. b by And again the great day of his ike when his red-blanketed red band swept down on the time hapless Fetterman troop Even note now his heart must seem to stand standstill standstill standstill still still as ns he hees lives es over again that tearful tearful rear tear tear- ful day of the Wagon Box fight when hen he hei I hurled the time pick of ot the Sioux nation nation nation na na- tion against the riflemen On December 10 10 1900 IDro the ole ola vans mans dreams ended and und TIed Red Cloud the greatest great great- I Iest est war chief f of ot the dl died d. d |