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Red Cloud's folk a history of the Oglala Sioux Indians

The object of the present volume is to present a complete history of one of the Teton Sioux tribes from the time of its origin until it came to the reservation and was broken to pieces by the policy then favored by the United States government. The Oglalas were the spearhead of the Teton Sioux advance, and from 1840 onwards they stood squarely in the path of that new immigration of pioneer trains, traders, and the protective military, which threatened their newly won hunting range on the northern prairies. In the historic struggle which ensued, white reverses revealed the real might of the Sioux -- the destruction of Lieutenant Grattan and his men in 1854; the Fetterman disaster of 1866; and finally the Custer Fight on the Little Big Horn in 1876. During these years of heavy conflict, between 1865 and 1877, Red Cloud of the Oglalas stood out as one of the greatest of the Sioux leaders. His achievements were not confined to the battlefields alone, for he met and on more than one occasion bested his white contemporaries in diplomacy. - Jacket flap.

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