RED CLOUD'S PEACE PIPE

AIRED: Season 2, Episode 1
THE DETECTIVE: Wes Cowan
THE PLACE: Livermore, California

THE CASE:

Was this pipe given to a Californian woman's ancestor by the famous warrior Chief Red Cloud?

The ancestor was the Indian agent who moved the Oglala Lakota to a Reservation in South Dakota.

Would Chief Red Cloud have given such a gift to a U.S. government official?

The History Detectives go back to the turbulent days of the 1870s and a battle of wills and political scandal that reached the highest levels of government.

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