More than 10,000 people visit the grave of Chief Red Cloud, a Lakota warrior who is buried on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

Red Cloud was born in 1822. He was the leader of a war that led to the historic 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie that ensured the Sioux Nation's control of a vast territory that included the Black Hills and lands in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana.

The U.S. quickly broke the treaty and Red Cloud drew criticism for converting to Catholicism around 1900. He died in 1909 and is buried on a hill overlooking the Red Cloud Indian School.

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