Maȟpíya Lúta (Red Cloud) 1880 Charles Milton Bell American Throughout the nineteenth century, the U.S. government invited hundreds of Native American delegations to Wash ington, D.C., 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 U.S. 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 inc

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Maȟpíya Lúta (Red Cloud) 1880 Charles Milton Bell American Throughout the nineteenth century, the U.S. government invited hundreds of Native American delegations to Wash ington, D.C., 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 U.S. 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 inc

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