Photo, above: Red Cloud (Lakota: Maȟpíya Lúta), (1822 – December 10, 1909), war leader and a chief of the Oglala Lakota. 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.   After signing the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), he led his people in the important transition to reservation life. Some of his US opponents mistakenly thought of him as overall chief of the Sioux. In 1874, General George Custer led a reconnaissance mission into Sioux territory that reported gold in the Black Hills, an area held sacred by the local Indians.  See: Hour 3, Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, by Heather Cox Richardson.

 

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“When I was here before, the President gave me my country, and I put my stake down in a good place, and there I want to stay.... You speak of another country, but it is not my country; it does not concern me, and I want nothing to do with it. I was not born there.... If it is such a good country, you ought to send the white men now in our country there and let us alone.” 

-- Spotted Tail

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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: William Henry Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President,1841 by Gail Collins, Arthur M. Schlesinger and Sean Wilentz   (1 of 4)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: William Henry Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President,1841 by Gail Collins, Arthur M. Schlesinger and Sean Wilentz  (2 of 4)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz  (3 of 4)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block D: Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz  (4 of 4)

Hour Two

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block A: 1812: The Navy's War by George C. Daughan  (1 of 4)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block B: 1812: The Navy's War by George C. Daughan  (2 of 4)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block C: 1812: The Navy's War by George C. Daughan  (3 of 4)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block D: 1812: The Navy's War by George C. Daughan  (4 of 4)

Hour Three

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 3, Block A: Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson   (1 of 2)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 3, Block B: Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson   (2 of 2)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 3, Block C:   Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year by Charles Bracelen Flood   (1 of 2)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 3, Block D: Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year by Charles Bracelen Flood   (2 of 2)

Hour Four

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 4, Block A: The Captain Who Burned His Ships: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829 by Gordon S. Brown  (1 of 2)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 4, Block B: The Captain Who Burned His Ships: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829 by Gordon S. Brown   (2 of 2)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 4, Block C: CAMPAIGNS FOR VICKSBURG, 1862-63, THE: Leadership Lessons by Kevin Dougherty   (1 of 2)

Sunday 30 June 2013 / Hour 4, Block D: CAMPAIGNS FOR VICKSBURG, 1862-63, THE: Leadership Lessons by Kevin Dougherty   (2 of 2)

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