“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band.… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
When I get home and people ask me,'Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man? What are you? Some kind of war junkie? I… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well. — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
You know, a friend of mine asked me before I got here... it was when we were all shipping out. He asked me, 'Why… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past. — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band. (...) The… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image