South dakota Quote by Richard Manning

[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of…

— Aaron Huey

We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it…

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely…

— Richard Rodriguez

“Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We”

— Bobby Akart

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely…

— Nelson A. Miles

Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they…

— Ishmael Reed

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to…

— John Sutter

The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills. But the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“Scholars have estimated that by 1850, the aboriginal population in North America—besieged by the invaders’ explosive weaponry, wondrous technology, contemptuous cruelty, and irresistible pathogens,…

— Richard Kluger

Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to…

— Michael Savage

The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the…

— Ted Nugent