Standing Bear Quotes

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• God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as…
• There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.
• Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to read,…
• Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
• My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of…
• If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame…
• You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me…
• And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.

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