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Red Cloud, he was a great Sioux chief

American soldiers caused him great grief

The Lakota tribes he did lead

The buffalo provided all they would need

But by the hunters these beasts were killed

On the plains, much buffalo blood was spilled

The carcasses were left right there

To rot and rot and stench the air

The white men came for skins and gold

To leave their land the Sioux were told

But Red Cloud, he kept up his fight

He fought for the land which was his by right

At last he drove the white men out

His men showed their glee with a great big shout

But the treaty the whites did break,

The valuable Sioux land they aimed to take

They fought the tribes for their land

At Little Bighorn were defeated by Sitting Bull’s band

The fight was known as Custer’s Last Stand

The greatest U.S. defeat in any Indian land

But eventually the tribes were defeated,

On the reservations how poorly they were treated

But Sitting Bull was still out there

He fled to Canada to avoid the reservation affair

The U.S. army he did scare

All of their soldiers were told, “Beware”

After many years in the Canadian cold

Sitting Bull would surrender the reservation was told

On reservations were at last all the Sioux

Their war days over, their warriors blue

And thus the story of the Sioux tribes is done

Their land all taken, their cultures undone