“There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry”
– General George Armstrong Custer
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“Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights”
“When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?”
“It does not take many words to tell the truth”
“The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it”
“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it”
“They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse”
“What does it matter how I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?”
“If we must die, we die defending our rights”
“These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule”
“The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion”
“A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people”
– Sitting Bull
June 1876 – The Battle of the Little Bighorn, “Custer’s Last Stand”, was a victory for combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes against the 7th Cavalry