Maȟpíya Lúta (Red Cloud) 1880 Charles Milton Bell American Throughout the nineteenth century, the government invited hundreds of Native American delegations to Wash ington, , in an effort to seek peace, negotiate treaties, and acquire tribal land. Delegation photography was a routine part of any state visit, and many portrait studios, including that of Charles M. Bell, profited from the business. Red Cloud (Mahpiua Luta, 1822-1909), the principal chief of the Oglala, Dakota, was born on the Platte River in Nebraska Territory. He was one of the few Native American leaders to win a mili
Maȟpíya Lúta (Red Cloud) 1880 Charles Milton Bell American Throughout the nineteenth century, the government invited hundreds of Native American delegations to Wash ington, , in an effort to seek peace, negotiate treaties, and acquire tribal land. Delegation photography was a routine part of any state visit, and many portrait studios, including that of Charles M. Bell, profited from the business. Red Cloud (Mahpiua Luta, 1822-1909), the principal chief of the Oglala, Dakota, was born on the Platte River in Nebraska Territory. He was one of the few Native American leaders to win a military campaign against the Army, successfully resisting in 1865-66 the government's development of the Bozeman Trail. A signatory of many treaties and a frequent visitor to the capital, Red Cloud sat for this portrait in June 1880 as part of a special delegation investigating the treatment of students at the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This cabinet card (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches) portrait shows Red Cloud wearing an animal-skin shirt and a breastplate of bones, called hair-pipes, edged with brass beads. He also wears a single feather from a golden eagle. No other creature flew so high or matched its swiftness and Maȟpíya Lúta (Red Cloud) 283224
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