Talk:Red Cloud, Nebraska

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Oglala occupation?[edit]

I've put a citation-needed template by a statement that the RC area was occupied by Oglala Sioux "at the time of European encounter". I'm not sure if this was the case. As I recall, the Kitkehahki Pawnees occupied the area intermittently until about 1833 (see Pike-Pawnee Village Site); and until the Massacre Canyon event in 1873, two years after the establishment of Red Cloud and Guide Rock, the upper Republican valley continued to be used as hunting ground by the Pawnees. The Lakota were located further north and west, above about the junction of the North and South Platte Rivers.

I could be mistaken, and I don't have my library available right now, so I'm not removing the statement. However, in the past there's been confusion arising from the assumption that if the city was named after Red Cloud, he and his people must have inhabited the area; the statement that I'm marking may result from more of the same.

--Ammodramus (talk) 19:45, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]