Jake Red Cloud was born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota to a Quechua father (the indigenous people of North America) and a Lakota mother (a tribe which one of the three prominent subcultures of the Sioux people), and he was brought up in an isolated and rural part of the reservation.
Quechua people (/ktu/, US also /ktw/; Spanish: [ketwa) or Quecha people, may refer to any of the indigenous people of South America who speak the Quechua languages, which originated among the indigenous people of Peru. 
