“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 away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here…I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land…When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us…My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.”
![“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 away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land, I wish to be an old man here. [...] I have not wished to give even a part of it to the…” quote by Standing Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d35/standing-bear-40971_aboriginals_you-have-driven-me-from-the-east-to-this_1644739.jpg)
