Red Cloud

(1822-1909) lived near Oshkosh. War leader and peacemaker for Oglala Lakota, supported peace treaty negotiations and signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Consult Robert W. Larson, Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux (University of Oklahoma Press, 1997) and American National Biography, Vol 18 (1999) 243-245.

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