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If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains,…

— George Armstrong Custer

“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being destroyed bit…

— Mary Crow Dog

“In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life”

— Anonymous

“A system which looks to the extinction of a race is too abhorrent for a Nation to indulge in,” Grant told Congress in his…

— Ron Chernow

The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and…

— Grover Cleveland

“Perhaps everybody, indigenous and not, lives on their own kind of reservation.”

— Sherman Alexie

“The power of endurance of the plains Indians has always been beyond comprehension by white men. These tribesmen hunted, feasted, gambled, and eagerly made…

— Frank Bird Linderman

“These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency…

— William T. Sherman

“We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth, as 'wild'. Only to…

— Paul Goble

“I am and always have been a friend of the Indian. I have always sympathized with him in his struggle to hold the country…

— William F. Cody

“The White Man has taken most of our land. He has paid us nothing for it. He has destroyed or driven away the game…

— William F. Cody

“I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power, no control."…

— Dee Brown