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Date Posted: 09:28:56 03/23/01 Fri
Author: Anonymous
Subject: RED CLOUD

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com
RED CLOUD BUST UNVEILED IN NEB. HALL

Red Cloud bust unveiled in Neb. hall

Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns, right, tries to look around the headdress of
Oglala Chief Oliver Red Cloud during a ceremony Thursday inducting Red
Cloud's grandfather, Chief Red Cloud, into the Nebraska Hall of Fame, in
Lincoln, Neb. (AP Photo by Nati Harnik)


By Scott Bauer, Associated Press Writer

LINCOLN, Neb. — Famed Oglala Sioux Chief Red Cloud, known for his bravery as
a young warrior and his leadership as a chief in the late 1800s, took his
place Thursday as a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame.


The unveiling ceremony in the Capitol's Warner Memorial Chamber was attended
by about two dozen of Red Cloud's relatives and more than 100 others,
including Gov. Mike Johanns, the artist who sculpted the bust and Oglala
Sioux Chief Oliver Red Cloud.


"I really want to thank you from the bottom of my heart," said Red Cloud, the
grandchild of the honored chief. "I have been waiting for this for years."


After the unveiling, Winfred Red Cloud sang the Red Cloud Honor Song.


The bronze bust, sculpted by Jim Brothers of Manhattan, Kan., who is part
Cherokee, shows Red Cloud wearing a single feather and holding a peace pipe.
The bust was based on a famous portrait of Red Cloud at the Smithsonian
Institute.


His bust will join other Hall of Fame members in the Capitol, including two
other American Indians — Standing Bear and Susette LaFlesche Tibbles, an
Omaha Indian-rights activist.


U.S. Sens. Chuck Hagel and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, along with Sen. Ben
Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, spoke about Red Cloud's importance to
Nebraska and U.S. history by satellite from Washington, D.C.


"He stood up for his people, his land and his way of life as any great
American would," said Campbell, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on
Indian Affairs.


President Bush sent a letter for the occasion, noting Red Cloud's character
and tireless advocacy for peace.


Red Cloud was born in 1822 in Garden County. He rose through tribal ranks to
become chief in the early 1860s.


In 1866 the federal government announced plans to open the Bozeman Trail and
build three forts to defend it. The trail, from Nebraska and Colorado through
Wyoming to Montana, crossed some of the Sioux's favorite hunting grounds.


Red Cloud organized a two-year campaign of harassment against workers on the
trail and its forts. His efforts led to the government's signing of a 1868
treaty abandoning the trail and its forts.


The treaty was broken and another Indian war started when gold was found in
the Black Hills. When the Sioux were defeated and forced onto a reservation,
Red Cloud refocused his work as a statesman.


Red Cloud spent the final years of his life on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in South Dakota. He died in 1909.


Red Cloud was among the first to be considered for membership in the Hall of
Fame in the early 1960s, but he was not nominated again until last year.


Twenty-two people, including showman Buffalo Bill Cody, author Willa Cather
and Arbor Day founder J. Sterling Morton, have been inducted into the hall
since it was founded in 1961.


On the Net: Nebraska Historical Society: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/

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