Red Cloud’s legacy lived on long after he died. In 1939, Rudie Adams proposed that a sculpture be built to honor Chief Red Cloud. The design, however, never reached completion (Designs). In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered that the Sioux be paid for the land that had been stolen from them, but the chiefs would not accept the money, saying that the Black Hills still were not for sale. Although the war had ended long ago, it continued to be remembered and Red Cloud’s defiant nature lived on in the hearts of the Sioux. Seventy thousand Lakota remain today, living under poor conditions on five different reservations in North and South Dakota (Higgins 27-28). A memorial stands today where the Fetterman Massacre occurred (Murray 46). A plaque
