“I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us… — 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
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
I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth… — 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 done in my country I did not want, did not ask for it; white people going through my country. [...] When the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood behind him…” quote by Red Cloud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f9c/red-cloud-32664_aboriginal_whose-voice-was-first-sounded-on-this-la_414364.jpg)
