The name change from Redskins to Red Clouds would go a long way toward repairing the relationship between the NFL and American Indians. Having grown up on the intense rivalries of the NFC East, we agree with Snyder that the team’s tradition and past glories are a big part of “who we are” and “where we came from.” Which is why we would hate to see his Washington franchise saddled with a generic animal, mineral, geological or meteorological appellation. Such a move would not only ease tension between American Indians and the NFL, but naming the team after Red Cloud would also signify strength, intelligence and perseverance - qualities any NFL team would be proud to project. The team should be renamed for the great leader who is buried on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, a short walk from the school named after him. In a response dated three days later and published in The Washington Post, Robert Brave Heart and George Winzenburg, executive vice president and president, respectively, of the Red Cloud Indian School in South Dakota, declared: “As an organization, Red Cloud Indian School has never - and will never - endorse the use of the name ‘Redskins.’ ” They urged Snyder to “engage in further discussion with Native groups across the country and, ultimately, to move toward changing the name, once and for all.” Snyder emphasized: “Our past isn’t just where we came from - it’s who we are.” 9 letter to Washington Redskins season-ticket holders, owner Daniel Snyder reiterated his pride in the team and resisted calls to change its name, which Indian groups and others have proclaimed offensive. Red Cloud poses for a portrait sometime between 18.
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It is time for Red Cloud to return to Washington - on the professional football team’s jerseys and in its fighting spirit. “Newspapers recounted his every word and deed, and large crowds of onlookers gathered at every public sighting. “He became stunningly famous,” historian R.
Less than two years later, Red Cloud was in the nation’s capital. In November 1868, Red Cloud signed a treaty to end the fighting - only after burning the Army forts to the ground. President Andrew Johnson’s stunned administration sued for peace. The high point of the war occurred when he and his field commander Crazy Horse wiped out an Army troop of 81 men. What is called Red Cloud’s War officially began in 1866 when the Sioux leader could no longer abide the relentless incursions, including the building of U.S. Lee could not in four: defeating the United States in a war.
The former commander of the Union armies may have recognized the significance of Red Cloud accomplishing in two years what Robert E. He was treated as a head of state, given tours of the Capitol and the Washington Navy Yard - where he witnessed a gunnery demonstration - and was feted at a White House reception hosted by President Ulysses S. In June 1870, the most powerful American Indian leader in the country, Red Cloud, arrived in Washington with a contingent of Oglala and Brule Sioux. Bob Drury and Thomas Clavin are the authors of “ The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend.”
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