"We were told that they wished merely to……" — Red Cloud
"We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?"
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Red Cloud
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13 Quotes by Red Cloud
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I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we…
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Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods…
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I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that…
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Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the…
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We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
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You whites make all the ammunition.
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The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where…
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The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.
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The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.
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The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not…
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When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights.…
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They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take…
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