Oliver-Red Cloud-Obituary

Oliver Red Cloud

Obituary

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) - The Oglala Sioux Tribe says Chief Oliver Red Cloud, a descendant of the legendary Lakota Chief Red Cloud, has died at the age of 93.

Tribal spokeswoman Toni Red Cloud, who is Oliver Red Cloud's niece, says her uncle died Thursday in a Denver hospital surrounded by family. Memorial arrangements are being planned.

Family members in a statement say Oliver Red Cloud was a powerful orator about obligations each nation had to the other in keeping peace during modern times. They say he was the leading statesman for keeping peace between Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho people.

Chief Red Cloud was an Oglala Lakota signer of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty peace agreement with the United States.


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May the Great Spirit carry you safely into the Spirit world, there you will meet again my husband (marriage by Chief Frank Fools Crow) to Chief Hogan Redcloud 1968. Whom died December 12th 1975 in Monterey Park CA.

MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD OF CHIEF RED CLOUD WHEN I WAS ONLY 7/8. YEARS OLD.,SHE SAID HE SAVED MY GREAT GREAT MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER WHEN HER HUSBAND HAD DIED..I CAN HONESTLY SAY MY SOUL AND HEART ARE FOREVER WITHIN THIS FAMILY..MAY I SAY THE. GREAT SPIRIT ABOVE HAS THE GOOD SOUL OF A GREAT CHIEF BE WITH PEACE. Virginia Floyd Peiffer of MARYLAND..(MY. HEART CAME FROM OKLAHOMA)...

I am proud to have known Oliver Red Cloud and his oldest son and my good friend, Verdell Red Cloud. Thank you, Oliver, for letting me go with you to pow wows and sharing your family sweat lodge with me when I was a student at School of Mines in Rapid City in 1970-72. You called me Norwegian Pete then, and gave me some unique and fond memories of the reservation and the Lakotas. I was lucky to see the you again a few times these last few years, I will never forget that. Rest in Peace.

I used to work in the Pine Ridge Hospital lab and Chief Redcloud would come in about once a week for his bloodwork.I enjoyed talking with him on his visits to us and i think he enjoyed talking to me too. I have just heard of his passing and wanted to say he was really nice too me and will be missed.