Red Cloud
Books by Red Cloud
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To the Far Corners
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Report of the commissioners appointed by the secretary of the interior to examine the Red Cloud and Whetstone Indian agencies ...
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Quotes by Red Cloud
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You whites make all the ammunition.
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The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.
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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.
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