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Chief Red Iron
image 1862

The following information on Chief Red Iron was gathered from http://www.hjemkomst-center.com/rrv/main.html.

Photograph of Ma-za-sha (Red Iron) by J. E. Whitney. Among the Sioux chiefs who signed the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, Red Iron was both a respected tribal leader and a man of peace. He did not take part in the United States-Dakota conflict, and in fact ordered his tribe not to participate in the events of 1862. With regard to Red Iron, Joseph Nicollet wrote: "Nothing equals the reserve and discretion of these good people and once they know who you are, what you are doing, and that you treat them well, it takes so little to make them your friends. I cannot conceive why so many whites blunder in their dealings with them."

Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society, Cat. #E91.1M/r15, Neg. #36755

SOURCE: Joseph N. Nicollet, The Journals of Joseph N. Nicollet: A Scientist on the Mississippi Headwaters with Notes on Indian Life, 1836-37 (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1970).

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They made us many promises, more than I can remember. But they kept but one - They promised to take our land...and they took it. -- Chief Red Cloud

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That piece of red, white and blue cloth stands for a system and a country that does not honor it's own word...If it stood for honor and truth, it would remember our treaties and give them the appropriate place under international law. But it doesn't. It dishonors its own word and violates its treaties...
In Honor of Tony Black Feather (Died August 11 2004)