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- NAME: Red Cloud
- OCCUPATION: Activist, Folk Hero, Political Leader
- BIRTH DATE: 1822
- DEATH DATE: December 10, 1909
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Nebraska
- PLACE OF DEATH: Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
- Originally: Ma?píya Lúta
- AKA: John "Red Cloud"
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Red Cloud was a chief of the Oglata Lakota tribe. He is best known for his success in confrontations with the United States government.
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Lakota chief Red Cloud was an important figure in the nineteenth century battle between Native Americans and the U.S. government over land. He successfully resisted developments of the Bozeman trail through Montana Territory and led the opposition against the development of a road through Wyoming and Montana for two years, a period that came to be known as Red Cloud's War.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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