We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
“Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows. [...] What has been… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
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… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
“I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man. — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you. — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did. — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
“There was no hope on earth, and God seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the Son of God; others did not… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
