Eureka Reporter | 1905-10-06 | Page 3 | Old Red Cloud, Leader of the Sioux, Had His Own Notion of Humor

old red cloud leader of the sioux had his own notion of humor there is a firm paleface conviction that the red man has no sense of hu mor it were better perhaps to qualify he statement by making it a trifle less weeping it la the paleface at a dis tance who thinks that the indian has no tunny bone the frontiersman knows otherwise there Is old ked cloud the sioux hiet tain now within a short journey f the joys which the happy hunting ground holds tor him who pro babi adver laughed in his life but aho vho behind his mask of solidity hides is keen an appreciation of the fun of thing as can be found in the corn position of any one of his white con nearly forty years ago red calud in the prime of his fighting days led with other chiefs an attack on the whites near fort fetterman red cloud had the better of his foes on that day afterward when the pale face soldiers with blue coats proved too many for him red cloud had a change of heart he said that he had plucked out hatred this was one of red cloud s best jokes and when the whites could not see his face because it was turned away from the council fire the old chief smiled and his eye twinkled with the joy of it A quarter of a century divided the fight at fort fetterman from that at wounded knee red cloud was at the pine ridge agency when the news of the battle between the soldiers of the seventh cavalry and the braves of big foot s band was brought in by courier