George Crook Quotes

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• I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.
• If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of…
• The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the…
• When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.
• We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws,…
• The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.
• During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten…
• When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the…
• I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.
• It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that…
• All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve,…
• Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can…
• It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed…
• It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years…
• The Indian is a human being.
• First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites;…
• But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.
• The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack…

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