Red Clouds Speech Analysis

Red Cloud's speech was directed towards all white people who were taking the Sioux Nation’s land and to the United States government. In his speech he asked for help from the whites to bring peace and put an end to the hostility between the Native Americans and the white people. Red Cloud was the chief of one of the Sioux tribes. He asked for help and informed all of the white people that Native Americans were the same as the whites. He told them that the Native Americans wanted peace and were only trying to make a living. The Americans had given the Native American, many promises about giving them land, bringing them horses in return for their ponies and as well learning how making a living for themselves, but none of those promises were kept. The Native American’s had done nothing but keep their word to the Americans and let them pass through their land for fifty-five with no harm. In return, their leader was taken away by the troops.
Red Cloud appealed to the whites by quoting an official of their government, Secretary Cox said "The riches we have in this world, Secretary Cox said truly, we cannot take with us to the next world.” Instead the white people were robbing everything from the Native Americans. These Sioux had lived many, many years in peace and happiness. They were surrounded with traders for the most part treated them each fairly and taught them how to use clothes, tobacco and weapons. Red Cloud’s pled showed