Touch the Clouds (1838-5 September 1905) was a chief of the Lakota tribe. He was the youngest son of Lone Horn and the brother of Spotted Elk, and he was also a cousin of Crazy Horse. Touch the Clouds became an Indian agent after the defeat in the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877, and he died on the Cheyenne Riverside Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Biography[]
Touch the Clouds was born in 1838, the son of the Lakota Sioux chief Lone Horn. He became the head of his tribe's warrior society due to his martial skills, and in 1875 he became the chief of the Lakota after his father's death, leading the Lakota during the Great Sioux War. Touch the Clouds attempted to flee his reservation, but in 1877 he was forced to surrender to General George Crook, and Touch the Clouds' relations with the US Army soured when his cousin Crazy Horse was bayonetted to death at Fort Robinson; Touch the Clouds was present as Crazy Horse died in his bed. Touch the Clouds was forced into the Cheyenne Riverside Indian Reservation of South Dakota, where he died in 1905, having frequently negotiated with the government of the United States.