Editing Red Cloud (section)

==Early life==
Red Cloud was born close to the forks of the [[Platte River]], near the modern-day city of [[North Platte, Nebraska]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/redcloud.htm|title=Red Cloud|work=New Perspectives of the West| via= PBS.org| publisher= PBS / [[WETA-TV|WETA]]|access-date=October 22, 2012}}</ref> His mother, Walks as She Thinks, was an [[Oglala Lakota]] and his father, Lone Man, was a [[Brulé]] Lakota leader.<ref name=Drury>{{cite book |first1=Bob |last1=Drury |first2=Tom |last2=Clavin |date=1993 |title=The Heart of Everything That Is |location= |publisher=Simon & Schuster |pages=60, 74|isbn=978-1-4516-5466-0}}</ref> They came from two of the seven major Lakota divisions.

As was traditional among the [[Matrilineality|matrilineal]] Lakota, in which the children belonged to the mother's clan and people, Red Cloud was mentored as a boy by his maternal uncle, [[Old Chief Smoke]] (1774–1864). Chief Old Smoke played a major role in the boy's childhood, as the leader of the Bad Faces.<ref name=Drury /> He brought Red Cloud into the Smoke household when the boy's parents died around 1825. At a young age, Red Cloud fought against neighboring [[Pawnee people|Pawnee]] and [[Crow Nation|Crow]] bands, gaining much war experience.