Quotes by Red Cloud

About Red Cloud:

Red Cloud was a war leader and a chief of the Oglala Lakota. He led as a chief 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.
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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.

Red Cloud

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.

Red Cloud

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

Red Cloud

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.

Red Cloud

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

Red Cloud

You whites make all the ammunition.

Red Cloud

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.

Red Cloud

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.

Red Cloud

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.

Red Cloud

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

Red Cloud

Author Bio

  • NameRed Cloud
  • DescriptionChief of Oglala Lakota
  • Born1822
  • DiedDecember 10, 1909
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTribal Chief