Chief Red Cloud Speech

Full text and audio mp3 performance of Chief Canasatego Address on Colonizing Education Everything was done to break up the power of the real chiefs. Those old men really wished their people to improve, but little men, so-called chiefs, were made to act as disturbers and agitators.

Spotted Tail wanted the ways of the whites, but an assassin was found to remove him. Red Cloud delivers the following speech after the Wounded Knee Massacre in order to shed light on the plight of the Native American peoples living on reservations. Red Cloud was noted as a warrior and a speaker.

In the excerpt below, he explains the plight of hisand indeed allNative American peoples in the last decades of the 19th century. Though a persistent critic of the government and of its Indian agents, whom be charged with graft and corruption, Red Cloud only opposed agitation for further wars that, he knew, would only result in losses for his people. Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota, explains to his audience the consequences of different understandings of the language contained in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868.

Language barriers often led to misunderstandings and even deceit in treaty negotiations. Red Cloud (18221909), an Oglala Lakota chief, was one of the most prominent Indian leaders in the second half of the nineteenth century. He led the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho in the war that bears his name, defeating the U.S.

Army in the only war it had lost. Red Cloud's speech to his warriors before battle. Get our free newsletter filled with Native American history, culture, heritage, li...more

As you read, take notes on Chief Red Clouds reaction to the Wounded Knee Massacre and how he traces back to the cause of this tragedy. Red Cloud delivers the following speech after the Wounded Knee Massacre in order to shed light on the plight of the Native American peoples living on reservations. An Indian Department was made with a large number of agents and other officials drawing large salaries then came the beginning of trouble; these men took care of themselves but not of us.

It was very hard to deal with the government through them they could make more for themselves by keeping us back than by helping us forward.