Chief Red Cloud: The Only American Indian in History to Defeat the Army in a War
Our American Stories
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, authors Bob Drury and Tom Clavin give Chief Red Cloud the recognition he deserves, sharing the story from their New York Times bestseller, The Heart of Everything That Is.
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| 0:55.5 | The great Sioux Warrior statesman Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. Bob Drury and Tom Clavin have finally given the little-known Red Cloud |
| 1:02.3 | the recognition he deserves with their New York Times bestseller, the heart of everything |
| 1:08.1 | that is, the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend. |
| 1:13.3 | Here's Bob and Tom to share the story with us, beginning with Bob. |
| 1:18.4 | This book, it's basically an untold story until now about how one man created an empire, if you will, on the high plains. |
| 1:32.3 | At one point, Red Cloud's territory included about one fifth of what is today the contiguous United States. |
| 1:41.4 | And no one before, we don't think, really knew what was going on in that |
| 1:47.2 | great swath of territory, bounded by the Missouri rivers, the Mississippi River, and the Rockies. |
| 1:53.6 | And cartographers, early cartographers, despite Lewis and Clark's exploration, they just labeled |
| 1:58.3 | it the Great American Desert. And no one knew how Red Cloud had consolidated this empire. |
| 2:06.6 | Now, of course, when he fought his war and won his war against the United States, |
| 2:11.6 | the only American Indians ever win a war, not a battle, a war against the United States. |
| 2:16.6 | People certainly knew who he was. But we were a little |
| 2:19.4 | trepidacious when we first started this book. Obviously, there was no one left from the 19th century. |
| 2:25.3 | But what we did find is that our forebears were such literate people. We went into this expecting, |
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