Elwood Alfred Towner (c. 1897 – October 6, 1954),[1][2] who also adopted the title of Chief Red Cloud, was an American attorney, tribal advocate, and antisemitic speaker.
[3][4] A mixed-race Native American Hupa[5] from Portland, Oregon,[3] Towner was active as a speaker during the late 1930s, making speeches throughout the American Northwest,[4] where he "defended Hitler while excoriating Jews.
[4][6][8] Towner was born on the Siletz Reservation in the late 1890s, and attended the Chemawa Indian School in Salem as a young boy.
[4] He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the First World War as a private, graduating from Willamette University College of Law in 1926.
[4][8] He advocated for Native clients, calling for the closure of the Chemawa school in 1933 as a part of the "emancipation" of Indians, and opposed the federal government's dam projects on the Columbia River.