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Canada and the United States

Robert W. Larson. Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux. (The Oklahoma Western Biographies series, number 13.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1997. Pp. xvi, 336. $24.95.

This book by Robert W. Larson presents a biography of Red Cloud, a leader of the Oglala Lakotas who rose to national prominence during the 1860s when the Lakota, or Western Sioux, fought against the United States army to preserve their homeland. Centering around the Black Hills, Lakota territory stretched from northern Nebraska to southern North Dakota, and from the Missouri River westward to the mountains of Wyoming and the Yellowstone country of southeastern Montana. In this vast area, the Lakota followed a nomadic life way based on the hunting of buffalo. 1

Born into the warrior culture of his people, Red Cloud achieved fame in battles with enemy tribes and a reputation for force when, as a young man, he killed Bull Bear, a chief a generation older than he, in what was essentially a political squabble between Oglala factions. The exact motivations for this killing are uncertain, but in any case the act did not prevent Red Cloud from being recognized as a leading chief of the Oglalas. To the American government he became more, however; U.S. officials treated him as the supreme leader of the Oglalas, attributing to him a degree of power and authority unknown in Lakota politics. . . .

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