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| Red Cloud was born in 1822 near the forks of the Platte
River, now North Platte, Nebraska. In his youth his father died,
his mother couldn't raise him so he was raised by his uncle, Chief
Smoke. His first battles were against his neighbors, the Crow
Pawnee. He has been called the greatest leader of there tribes.
Even though his was raised to be a warrior, but his courage and battle
bravery won him the title of Chief Red Cloud.
In 1851 Plains tribes meet government agents at the first Fort Laramie Treaty. Indians granted right-of-way for settlers through Indian territory in exchange for government annuity. In 1860 he successfully stopped the U.S. from building the forts on the reservation. In the 1860's he successfully stopped the U.S. soldiers from building the forts on the Lakota reservation. In 1865 he stopped the U.S. soldiers from building a road through Wyoming. In 1862 and 1863 Red Cloud was haunted by the vision of the Minnesota expulsion of the Lakota . In 1866 the U.S. army constructed forts along the Bozeman trail. Which ran through the Lakota territory, (present day Wyoming), and Montana's gold fields from Colorado's south Platte River. So in the winter of 1866 Red Cloud launched a series of attacks on the forts. Defeating Lieutenant Colonel William Fettermans column of 80 men at Fort Kearny.
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