A new biography chronicles the extraordinary life of the Sioux warrior Red Cloud. In the 1860's, when settlers were encroaching on Sioux territory, he led — and won — a two-year war against the U.S.

PIERRE, S.D. — The South Dakota State Historical Society has a new book out, and it focuses on the only Native American leader who defeated the U.S. Army in a war. The biography of Red Cloud examines ...

Red Cloud — Sioux chieftain, sometime ally of Sitting Bull and mentor to Crazy Horse — was a brilliant politician and military tactician. Pragmatic as well as daring, he cuts a less romantic figure ...

A political leader and a fierce warrior, Red Cloud, chief of the Oglala Sioux, fought unsuccessfully to save his people and their land from being seized by whites. Born in 1822 in what was then ...

PIERRE | The South Dakota State Historical Society has a new book out and it focuses on the only Native American leader who defeated the U.S. Army in a war. The biography of Red Cloud examines the ...