We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?
The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day. - Red Cloud
The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.
- Red Cloud
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. … - Red Cloud
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. …
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nati… - Red Cloud
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nati…
Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the… - Red Cloud
Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the…
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world. - Red Cloud
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man. - Red Cloud
The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you. - Red Cloud
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
You whites make all the ammunition. - Red Cloud
You whites make all the ammunition.
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write. - Red Cloud
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
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