Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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General Sheridan uttered the immortal words: “The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.”
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One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. —TASHUNKA WITKO (CRAZY HORSE)
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Another chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved five times. “I think you had better put the Indians on wheels,” he said sardonically, “and you can run them about whenever you wish.”
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Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told.