Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem

by James C. Olson

From the mid-1860s until the end of organized resistance on the Great Plains, Red Cloud, the noted Oglala Sioux, epitomized for many the Indian problem. Centered on Red Cloud’s career, this is an admirably impartial, circumstantial, and rigorously documented study of the relations between the Sioux and the United States government during the years after the Civil War.

Genres: History, Native American History, War, Nonfiction

375 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 1964

About the author

James C. Olson was an American historian, educator and school administrator who served as president of the University of Missouri System from 1976 until 1984. He had been a vice chancellor at the University of Nebraska and chancellor at University of Missouri-Kansas City.