"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 were to give me a million dollars I would not give him this land.... When people want to slaughter cattle they drive 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." -
Standing Bear - Ponca
Friday, July 6, 2007
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