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Red Cloud [1822-1909]

Rank: 101
Statesman, Leader

Red Cloud was an important leader of the Oglala Lakota. He led from 1868 to 1909. One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States Army faced, he led a successful campaign in 1866–1868 known as Red Cloud's War over control of the Powder River Country in northeastern Wyoming and southern Montana.

Peace

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They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.		101
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.	Peace	102
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.		103
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.		104
You whites make all the ammunition.		105
We do not want riches, we want peace and love.	Peace	106
The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.		107
The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.		108
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.		109
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.		110

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