Expounding on larger themes of war and peace, Sitting Bull soon struck at the heart of the matter. He told Miles that there could be no reconciliation between the races, because “the white man never lived who loved an Indian, and that no true Indian ever lived that did not hate the white man.” Boldly, he declared that “God Almighty made him an Indian and did not make him an agency Indian either, and he did not intend to be one.”
